My custom spinnerbaits

[carolina-rig-01]

A while back I made a post about looking for custom spinnerbaits. I ended up just ordering the stuff to make them myself because what I was looking for was very hard to find. I wanted fairly heavy spinnerbaits with a big single willow leaf blade. These spinnerbaits are going to be very technique specific, because of the heavy weights and the large single blade they are obviously not designed to chunk wind all day long. I wanted the spinnerbaits for 2 things. 1. to slow roll, the heavy weights will help keep bottom contact and the large willow leaf blade will provide a lot of flash and move some water without giving much lift to the bait. 2. I also will be using these spinnerbaits to flip and pitch around shallow brush and willow trees which is a great way to catch big fish here on Grand Lake when the water is up. Most guys will flip and pitch jigs and soft plastics which I do as well but a lot of the times you can catch bigger fish by flipping and pitching spinnerbaits because you are getting a lot of flash and vibration into areas where the fish usually don't see it, this works best when you find schools of baitfish in the area. Anyways here are some blades out of my first batch. Half of them will be 1/2oz and the other half will be 3/4oz. The ones in the picture have a #5 blade on them and I have some #7's on the way. I will be making about 30 of these total and dividing them between the 2 colors you see here. I wanted the shad color for when the water starts to clear up and the chartruese for when the water is muddy. Let me know what you think.