fishing planet alaska fishing with spinners baits

Fourth, the plastic clevis allows you to change the spinner blade without having to cut and re-tie.

Third, you can easily change the hook configuration and spacing to fish the spinner naked, or with a small bait such as a herring strip or coon shrimp, or with a larger bait such as a plug-cut or whole herring. Mono spinners have several advantages over wire spinners.

Initially, the use of mono spinners was kind of an underground movement, but it’s moved into the mainstream now. Who knows when the first angler decided to build a spinner on monofilament line? What we do know is that in the past seven years or so, anglers in the Lower 48’s Columbia River began using mono spinners instead of wire spinners behind Pro-Troll-type flashers in an effort to find a hook configuration that was more effective and versatile than the usual treble hook found on wire spinners. In this video, Fish Alaska Editor George Krumm explains the versatility of mono spinners and shows you how to tie them. Simply stated, a mono spinner is what it sounds like-a spinner built on monofilament (or fluorocarbon) instead of wire. Every angler knows what a spinner is, but not nearly as many know what a mono spinner, sometimes called a soft spinner, is.

Fishing planet alaska fishing with spinners baits