Also, don’t be afraid to go a size smaller or larger if you need to. Beads, blades, stickers, eyes, spinners, clevises, and other components can be added to lures to achieve a different look or action in the water.
You can also rig this like a “Walleye Killer Rig”.For Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout and Splake nothing beats fishing with a worm. Of course, if you don’t really feel like dealing with lines, hooks and knots, there are plenty of commercially available pre-tied snells from all the major hook manufacturers that would work great in most cases.The beads on a harness function primarily as a spacer to keep the rotating blade above the hooks and from interfering with the hook set, but also act as attractors by adding color, flash, a profile and possibly some vibration. Well, you can mix and match however you see fit. The downside to this is potential tangling of your line when you are removing your spinner harnesses as well as coiling of the line due to memory. You can also hook the minnow through the head just behind the lips. With or without a weight, they stimulate an array of fish senses from vibration and color, to scent and taste. Spinner harnesses made with stranded wire are typically smaller, about 6” to 8” long. At the end of the line tie on a barrel swivel using a Palomar knot.Examples of Nylon Coated Stranded Wire used for Tying Spinner HarnessesLet’s begin with the leader line. If you are trolling slow ( <1.0 MPH), drifting or casting/retrieving, choose a smile, deep cut Colorado or standard Colorado blade; or if you really must use a different style, choose a small blade. Add to Cart. A spinner harness is comprised of five basic components: leader line, hook(s), beads, a clevis and a spinner blade.
However, those knots provide a pivot point for the hook and as you troll it will likely have more independent movement compared to a snelled hook.
Similar to monofilament, it’s easy to tie and widely available. The majority of the less common blade types (Chopper, Dakota, French, Minnow, Oklahoma (i.e., Cascade, Olympic, Turtleback), Ripple, Royal Willowleaf, Swing, Tomahawk (i.e, Doc Sheldon, Hatchet), and Whiptail) have rotational angles and speeds that fall between the Colorado and Willowleaf blades. Another option I stumbled across is using stainless steel stranded beading wire. Bottom Row – Dutch Fork No Loss (X2), BPS Keeper, Interchange and Clip-N-Spin (X2) clevis is the quick change clevis, so named because the spinner blade is attached using the open hook of the cleis allowing it to be removed and replaced at any time.