A spinner bait is made of led with a thin steel wire embedded in it along with a hook. The wire may be straight or bent like a safety pin. On the wire there will be one or two spinners shaped like a tear drop or willow tree leaf. At the hook end there will be attached a skirt of rubber stranded material, a hair tail usually made of squirrel tail hair, or in some cases feathers. These baits of course do not float, but can be used at or near the surface of the water by rapid retrieval of the reel. Some anglers also use a trailer and hook of some kind. This is a small plastic grub or worm slipped over the hook of the bait and gives the bait a larger appearance to the fish. The trailer hook helps the angler to set the hook when a fish is slow to strike as in the late winter and early spring. It is a bait that can be used at all depths and near and through all types of cover like dead trees, grass, lily pads and submerged brush piles.
Crankbaits come in a wide variety of forms and as their name implies are meant to be "cranked" or reeled in from splash down to rod tip. This does not mean to throw it out and wind it in however. It means the action imparted to the bait is caused by reeling. Sometimes a slow steady retrieve works, sometimes fast while at other times a stop and go retrieve works best. They are made of plastic or wood moulded or carved in the general shape of a small bait fish. Floaters generally have a lip on the front which causes it to wiggle side to side mimicking a swimming bait fish. The size of the lip determines the depth these baits will dive. Short lips dive shallow while the longer lips dive deeper. The diameter (test) of the line will also effect the depth of the dive. Sinkers may or may not have a lip and sink to a desired depth by counting down. A rule of thumb is after the bait lands is to count by thousands to the desired depth. So if an angler wishes to fish around a rock pile 10 feet deep, they would count "one one thousand, two one thousand and on to ten. This will put most baits in the 10 foot range. Crankbaits can be fished in the same areas as spinner baits by exercising a little caution.
Both baits are very productive and fun to use.
A spoon is stamped from metal often with concave surfaces to create flash and vibations simulating baitfish. Spoons come in various weights and sizes to control depths and distance with cast. Spinnerbaits are constucted on a wire frame where the head of the bait provides the majoritry of the bait weighting. Spinner blades are used in either single or tandmm combinations to create flash and vibrations. The
shank of the hook s dressed with a variety of rubber skirt and plastic bodies to create differnt presentations based on water clarity.
No spinner baits are waited
Large spinner baits, jerkbaits, some large plastic baits, crankbaits will all take pike.
Spinner baits, jerkbaits, topwater chugging baits, like the Rebel Pop R.
Spinner baits, crankbaits, jerkbaits, plastic swim baits. Any topwater bait.
As for live bait, minnows and crayfish. Lures, plastic baits mimicing worms, lizards, or crayfish, spinner baits, crank baits, top water jerk baits or poppers, floating plastic worms.
For pike, topwater jerkbaits, inline spinnerbaits, crankbaits, plastic jerkbaits..For bass, plastic lures like worms, crayfish, minnow baits, topwater baits, spinner baits, crankbaits.
It depends on the season and temperature of the water. For instance, if its early season, like right after the ice melts, use soft baits like Texas rigged worms or something like a rage tail. When it's a nice sunny day in the spring or summer use spinner baits or MEPPS spinners.
spinners ad flash to a lure by the way light reflects of of them as they spin threw the water they can also ad color and sound to resemble a wounded fish. large mouth bass are frequently caught using spinner baits, some people say that a northern pike will attack a spinner bait just by the noise and flash making them mad
David Baits is 5' 8".
Live small fish, top water baits, in line spinner baits For small 'Jack' pike worms would be the best choice, for larger pike, small live fish of dead sea fish, i.e. Smelt, herring, mackerel. In the warmer months artificial lure, spinners, plugs or jerkbaits are highly effective.
Trout will hit shad imitation baits.
Basstar Baits Company was created in 2008.