Anyone else make spinners? Not spinnerbaits, but spinners like a Mepps spinner. I use a lot of them on Lake Superior.
Through the summer months the spinners I use are all pretty much heavy weights, 1/2 to 5/8 ounce with #5 blades and #2 treble hooks. Gold plate is generally my go-to color as long as some orange is on the body or behind the body in beads. Gold has to have orange, but it is my best color. A little later on, late-September thru October, silver with blue or silver with green are great colors when the salmon move in-shore and these color paterns work a bit better in a size 3 spinner sporting a 1/4 ounce body. A silver blade with purple and blue split length-wise on the front side is a dynamite dark day color too.
I've been in the garage making spinners most of the day. I had to quit....finger tips are bleeding and sore from twisting wire. I'll finish my annual stocking mission tomorrow.
