10-23-05, 12:18 PM | #1 |
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Beetle spins
Anyone else here fish with beetle spins much? Lately I've been using a 1/16 oz one a lot in a small river by my friends house. Catches a lot of big longears, stumpknockers, and warmouths, but also good bass. The river is loaded with trees, stumps, and all sorts of eddys so I just throw the lure upstream and birng it down to an eddy where the current is different and slow my retrieve down and bang, I've got a bass. Anyone else do this or use lures this small for bass? I like using the really small spinners b/c bass in the river are really spookable and the won't go after anything big.
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10-23-05, 12:37 PM | #2 |
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I use beetle spins when fishing for crappie bass and bluegill they work great when they are extra small.
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10-23-05, 04:12 PM | #3 |
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Read a article where the pro's use bittle spins more than you think. They have fashioned a homemade bettle spin that is larger that they use. Chapman was fishing one a year ago in a Tourney on the delta I believe.
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10-23-05, 05:39 PM | #4 |
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really almost any size colorado blade with a grub or split tail could be made very easily with a jig head.
The yellow/black beetle spin has been used for years, heres an example of a homemade version |
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I believe a beetle spin is identical to a bass buster, or they may be the same thing, not sure. But I do know they catch bass. I rig one up on a lite spinning reel when I take a kid fishing with me and He usually catches more fish than I catch. So I know for sure that it is a good bait to use use if you want to catch brim or crappie.
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10-23-05, 05:54 PM | #6 |
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Got two at ace today. Just tie em' on and reel???
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10-23-05, 06:06 PM | #7 |
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yep. or jig them
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10-24-05, 04:02 PM | #8 |
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Just think of it as a spinnerbait and throw and retrieve like you would any grub or spinnerbait, the flash of the blade and the action of the plastic varies from grub to paddle tail , to the split tail action that the beetlespin has.. I guess the chartruse and black or yellow and black resembles a catalpa worm...
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10-24-05, 04:25 PM | #9 |
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never had faith in beetle spins. Did better with grubs.
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I caught a 9lb. bass on a 1/8 oz. Beetle Spin a few years back when living in Florida. Caught her on 6lb. with an ultra lite. I was fishing for gills. I watched her come up from the bottom and inhale the bait. I was afraid to pull too hard for fear of breaking off. I let her pull the boat around for about 10 mins. LOL. When I lipped her the hook fell out of her mouth.
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10-24-05, 06:34 PM | #11 |
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I caught a 5lb bass(New York) on 1/64 jighead with tiny grub
Caught a 5lb 3oz bass on 2.5 in bass.
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10-24-05, 06:36 PM | #12 |
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2.5 in tube i mean duh!
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10-25-05, 08:34 AM | #13 |
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I make my own beetlespins, using a 1/4 oz jighead, #3 gold colorado blade and a white 3" body which makes it just a little larger than a normal beetlespin. I can follow guys down a bank throwin regular stuff and pick them off with a bettlespin, not just little ones, up here on lake Erie the big smallies love em! I just caught a 20" largie 2 days ago, fluttering one down the rip rap, a good tactic if theres a bunch of baitfish around.
I've kicked my buddies butts more than once with them, so now they have nicknamed me beetlspin billy! Great little bait! |
10-25-05, 10:59 AM | #14 |
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I never go to the lake without a beetlespin. I have caught so many bass with them. Sometimes, when nothing else works, these will.
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once and a while i fish beetle spins, on light spinning tackle for crappies and gills, and the occasional small bass? However when i was at one fo the piers at lake erie i pulled it down the pier and caught a 3.5 lb. smallmouth!!!
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