TRolling Spinnerbaits?

[rayke1938]

Does anyone troll spinnerbaits?

I have never tried it as I thought that you would need heavy around 3/4 ounceones.

I have just been speaking to Paul from Come In Spinnerabits up in Toowoomba and he recommends trolling at around 1.5 to 1.8 kph using ( Narurally)his own brand 3/8 ounce ones. He said leave out around 30 to 40 metres of line and they will troll at 20 ft depth.

He says really cleans up at Cressbrook and Hinze so I am going to have a go next time. He says its far superior ( and Cheaper)than trolling Jackalls .

Cheers

Ray

[Ash]

Ive trolled spinner baits from yaks for bass before and have done ok. Mainly when going to a new area to fish. Trolling beside weed beds and drop offs have work for me, jut like normal hb trolling i guess

[pcsolutionman]

ray I have done it heaps up at baroon when the bass are schooling deep, I use 3/8 - 5/8 oz leaving at least 40m or so out the back. gets them down deep. I have had great success at times

Lee

[bretto]

I have not tried it here yet but when I was based in darwin we trolled 1/4oz spinners about 35m back and had great success on saratoga in manton dam, corroboree billabong and yellow waters in kakadu. not sure how deep they were running but we were going 1.5 - 2kph. I have caught a fewof average sized bass trolling in between the ramp and water tower at hinze on 5/8oz.

brett

[STU]

Yeah give it a go Ive caught a few bass trolling spinnerbaits while looking on the sounder seaching for fish go slow and use heavier spinner bait to get down

[Dinodadog]

I tried them at NPD a few years ago with no luck so never tried again, there is always to much to play with. Anaconda had 1oz s/baits if interested

[Terry H]

Yeah as mentioned I think the key would be to let enough line out and go SLOW

Although what I don't know is how do you control/know what depth you're running at? If say the bass are at 40ft in 60ft of water, how do you know you're getting down to that depth and not 20ft, or 50ft?

[MichaelJ]

you no if your geting to the fish if youre catching them terry

[STU]

Change speed or size of spinnerbait till you start catching them only other way is a down rigger but I would prefer to cast at them and count the spinnerbait down till its in strike range:)

[Terry H]

Hmm, thought I made a response here.

How do you know if you're too deep though?:S

[jeff f]

no bites

[Terry H]

Sorry mate, I'm just being a bit stupid now, but what I was trying to get at was: how do you know if its too shallow or too deep. Both produce no bites, one can be fixed by dropping the spinner bait down further, the other is made worse by this.

[rayke1938]

By using your sounder. TRill in 20ft and see if the spinner bumps on the bottom. Like when I am trolling the halco 8m crazy deep it bumps at 21ft.Paul said that his 1/2 oz ones reach 30ft max.

Cheers

Ray

[Feral]

I've trolled spinner baits to see what they do, not caught anything on them, but from my experimenting if you want deep I would recommend single blade ones, probably the willow leave pattern. The colorado blades, and definately multiple blades make for shallower running.

[Dinodadog]

As Ray said the only way to test any lure for trolling is to keep changing speed or the length of line out till you start bouncing off the bottom and watching the sounder all the time. As Stu said you learn the depth your s/bait drops at when casting and count it down to where the fish are. OR to make things easy you used to be able to buy a s/bait with a bib on it called a Hybrid depending on what line you used when you cast or trolled it would stay at that depth for the retreive or the troll. Lee Sisson Lures Hybrid if you can find them.

[Plastic Man]

sounds interesting dino a spinnerbait with a bib did you ever use one ? and if so did you like the idea?

[Dinodadog]

This is it Andrew made in USA used one time and moved to the back of the shelf, I'll have to give it another run

Dino [img size=448]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/bait_001.JPG

[STU]

Worth a try mate