Beetle Spin

[FalconSmitty]

Karl you catch strippers titlining......
CP that is funE

[Jerry Blake]

Y'all crack me up!

[KARL]

Karl you catch strippers titlining......
CP that is funE

...heck, if that's the case then I need to learn THAT technique.. :D

[olelucky]

I grew up fishing with the beetle spins, don't fish them much anymore. I may have to try the roadrunners a little more.

[Moose1am]

If that is what you are calling a Beatle Spin then I have used those type of spinners many times. My panfish tackle box is full of those spinners. Most of mine are attached to a jig head 1/16 oz with plastic bodies of different colors.

I didn't use them very much this past year as I got into drop shotting and very slow trolling with jigs and minnow but I use to cast these small spinners a lot.

They are excellent at times. I can remember times at Gibson Lake near Princeton IN when I could not keep the crappie off one of those bait. And there was on or two times at Patoka Lake when I fished these baits over a weedbed and over a Corp of engineer log fish attractor and the crappie would hit this bait with gusto.

Last fall I caught a nice crappie off an beaver lodge by casting this type of small spinner bait.

There is something about the sound vibrations and the sunlight flashing off these spinners that makes the fish try to eat them.

These baits are very good for seaching for fish. You can throw them out and count them down and fish all depths from the surface to the very bottom of the lake. Fish them with a very slow retrieve or fish them with a stop and go retrieve or even just drag them behind the boat. When the crappie are in the weeds these baits can be fish over the top of the weeds and be very productive.

So many baits and so little time

The little trick below makes any jig a beetle spin. Made by Lindy, Available from Bass Pro and others. Make your you match blade size to lure weight. Culprit makes a fine line of soft plastics to fit most situations. In colder water a tube tipped with a small minnow or scent works well as the weather warms and you can work the lure faster a curly tail works well. Hang onto your rod any thing from a bream to a striper will hit those things.