08-06-2011, 01:38 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Quite a few wiper fans have come to know the effectiveness of spinner baits for wipers. They work especially well early in the year (April/May) and again in late fall (October). Spinners on lures create flash and vibration that help induce reaction bites when fish are not as active...due to colder water or turbidity, etc.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A couple of years ago I watched a Willard "regular" working a big white spinnerbait around the brush and stickups in the NE corner of the lake. He was wading and throwing his lure right into the nastiest cover. Wipers were in there chasing shad and he was catching fish with regularity. He hooked more than he brought in because they often wrapped up in the sticks and tore loose. He was using heavy braid and wasn't breaking them off. And some he had to wade in and unwrap them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I know a few guys who throw spinnerbaits at the rocks prior to and during the false spawn period each spring and do very well. Again, white or silver seems to work best but when the water is cold and/or stained chartreuse also produces well.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Other spinners work well throughout the year. I catch a few on roadrunner lures and also on regular inline spinners...similar to Roostertails and Panther Martins. Small ones in silver or white work well when the fish are chasing small shad. A good way to work them is to cast long, allow them to settle to the bottom and then burn them back up through the water column. Cat and mouse strikes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A couple of years ago I watched a Willard "regular" working a big white spinnerbait around the brush and stickups in the NE corner of the lake. He was wading and throwing his lure right into the nastiest cover. Wipers were in there chasing shad and he was catching fish with regularity. He hooked more than he brought in because they often wrapped up in the sticks and tore loose. He was using heavy braid and wasn't breaking them off. And some he had to wade in and unwrap them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I know a few guys who throw spinnerbaits at the rocks prior to and during the false spawn period each spring and do very well. Again, white or silver seems to work best but when the water is cold and/or stained chartreuse also produces well.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Other spinners work well throughout the year. I catch a few on roadrunner lures and also on regular inline spinners...similar to Roostertails and Panther Martins. Small ones in silver or white work well when the fish are chasing small shad. A good way to work them is to cast long, allow them to settle to the bottom and then burn them back up through the water column. Cat and mouse strikes.[/#0000ff]
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