Carp said:
I got a couple of these spinners and i heard they are good for salmon. how would I fish them? just attach to main line or use it as drift fishing? Going to get some bluefox vibrax spinners and just wondering if these would work too.
This is a trolling spinner designed by Terry Mulkey...Oregon fishing guide and Fisherman's Marine employee (Oregon City).
They can be cast from the bank but it would be very clunky because you would have to add weight.
Spinners designed to be cast from the bank are usually "weighted spinners".
With these you tie direct to the spinner...I use a Rosco USA Interlock snap swivel, then my homemade French Blade spinner.
With all the weight built into the spinner, you don't have the clunky hinge effect that an added weight will cause.
An added weight will also dampen spinner blade feedback to the rod tip.
And it's all about maintaining spinner blade RPM....so you have to be able to read it on your rod tip.
When you figure out what that means and how to do it, you will be catching fish.
Easiest store-bought spinner to learn on (for steelhead) is the Panther Martin 1/2 oz size (for normal size steelhead rivers like the Clack or Sandy).
This is the "inline" type blade and it's much easier to run and read than the French (Blue Fox, for example).
It will also cut into deeper slots better, but you have to be careful and keep it lit in shallow water or you will donate.
Learn what that ideal "thump" looks like on your rod tip and maintain it.
Don't just cast out and let it tumble.....you are operating a device, so reel in slowly....just enough to maintain that "thump" on your rod tip.
Depending on current, sometimes it will run without taking in line and sometimes you have to take the reel out of gear to maintain thump.
I use a direct drive reel so I'm constantly maintaining thump and reacting instantly to current speed/depth.