HOW TO FISH SPINNERS FOR TROUT - TIPS & TRICKS for SUCCESS

hey guys welcome back to the channel we're out on the river today and i figured i might try to do some more how-to videos for you guys this year and the first one of that series is going to be how to catch trout on spinners spinners have been around for a long time there's a bunch of different brands and we can kind of dive into that a little bit later but the first thing that we're going to talk about is what you need for a rod reel set up like that so what i'm using today is a seven foot ultra light this is a jt paint handler this is a you know very very high end rod so um if you guys do want to check out this rod it's always linked in the description below and it's a promo code for you guys to use but this is my favorite trout rod and uh you know anything from a six foot six to seven foot ultra light rod is going to be perfect for pretty much any type of trout fishing unless you get into some really technique specific stuff so you know if you're if you're on a smaller stream like we are today i mean even you know half the size of the stream you can downsize you could even use a rod like this as well as like a four foot six little you know micro series rod but you know personal preference if you're gonna try to be versatile and fish you know a bunch of different techniques then the seven foot or six foot six is a really good choice and the real selection um that's also a little bit personal preference usually anywhere from like a 1500 to a 2500 size school reel will really work well i have on this rod right now the plugar supreme xt reel i believe that's the 2000 size this is the shimano stratix ci4 plus 2500 size that's a good reel as well a little bit bigger holds a little bit more line but still a great uh you know it's one of their top end reels so shimano makes a really good reel even their low end reels are really nice so you can pick up a 2500 size 2000 size pretty easily so line choices that's also a personal preference as well a lot of guys like mono a lot of guys like braid and some guys even like fluorocarbon i don't like fluorocarbon because i have a hard time keeping it managing it on my reels for some reason you have to go pretty light for it to you know stay manageable on this reel because it has the memory and it kind of wants to just coil off your wheel all the time so what i like is either mono or braided line and on here i have a p line and i'm gonna link all this stuff in the description for you guys to find um all the you know the specific brand and stuff that i use but it's basically a 10 pound test braided line and whenever you use braided line you always want to use a little bumper on the end of that so i have this clear line here about six feet or so of eight pound eight or six pound fluorocarbon on the end of that and you just tie it with whatever knot you want you know not uh just look up uh leader leader to braid knot and you can use whatever one you want so uh 10 pound braided line with a anywhere from a four to eight pound fluorocarbon leader and you know some guys like mono on on this little reel here i have mono on there you know same thing anywhere from a four to eight pound mono works well you don't have to use a liter or anything like that but i will tell you that the 10 pound braid gives you way way more sensitivity you're going to feel every little nick every little nibble any little strike even if you're ticking bottom you can feel the blade on that spinner spin around make sure the action is working really well so really highly recommend using braid it lasts a lot longer and with that 10 pound you can still break it off easily if you get snagged somewhere i think spinners are probably the most versatile um trout bait as far as like a moving bait um you can fish these things in shallow water deep water fast-moving water ponds small creeks um you can fish them fast you can fish them slow they're just really versatile all right guys so here's a bunch of different brands of spinners um one thing i will know is that when you buy these from a store generally they're going to have a treble hook on it i just switched all these over my personal preference i like fishing with single hooks instead and these are you know some of these hooks are actually a little bit big for these baits but um these are this is my old gear i don't really use these much anymore i have uh i make my own spinners now and sell them so we'll show you those in a little bit here but um so anyways just remember that they're gonna come with a treble hook and that's perfectly fine um so blue fox is a very popular brand here uh these are blue foxes a couple different sizes couple different colors this is also a blue fox here just got kind of like a minnow body on it a brown trout body it kind of floats a little bit but this one here is a maps maps is really popular too this one you can see has a little bit different blade from all the rest and they come in different you know shapes and sizes all different blade designs this one's an inline blade here so there's no clevis or anything it just rotates around the shaft of the spinner itself this is a rooster tail a lot of people start out with these they're really cheap to get a hold of i don't really like these all that much they're pretty lightweight but they do work and you can get them pretty cheap in a bulk package so this is a size one blade here that's about as big as i really like to go for trow so to reduce line twist because this thing is constantly spinning around and it's rotating on your line if you don't have a swivel above this you're going to get a bunch of bird's nest over time it's going to twist your line all up and when you go to cast you're going to get a bird's nest and it's going to be a complete mess so so what a lot of people do to remedy that is they take these small snap swivels here and just tie your line directly to that and then clip this right on the end of the spinner like that and that way it also makes it easier to switch out spinners really quick you just unclip it clip another one on the other way you could do it is if you wanted to go you know a few feet above um your your spinner like if you're running a liter or something you can just put on a small barrel swivel from if you're running braid just tie this to your braid and then tie your leader to that and then tie your leader directly to the swivel to the uh spinner so with the everett lures that i make and sell i build these with a swivel built right into the head of the spinner itself so you don't have to use any type of snap swivel or anything like that on your main line and it just reduces the overall profile of the bait all right so now we're going to talk about how you actually fish a spinner so we'll start with ponds because that's probably the easiest so usually in a pond what i like to do is i size up my gear a little bit i use a quarter ounce spinner with the bigger size 2 blade on there if you don't know where to start when you get to a pond always look for the cold water inlet and outlet because that's where a lot of fish kind of hang out that's where a lot of food bait bugs and activity like that come down through and it's where a lot of fish either go to spawn or fall spawn during certain times of the year so those are good places to check also uh you know boat ramps boat ramps can be good especially in stock ponds because that's you know generally where they drop the fish off when they stock so and those fish will really hang around for quite a while until they kind of acclimate to everything and you know spread out so so hawaii fish a spinner in a pond uh one of the ways is just give it one big bomb cast as far as you can to cover some water let that spinner sink all the way to the bottom of the pond or pretty close to it and then you want to engage the blade on that spinner and how you do that is basically either giving your rod a little twitch and cranking down your handle a little bit faster than you would normally reel and that spinner will start to engage and you should feel that through the tip of your rod now once that's engaged you can just do a steady retrieve slow down your cadence a little bit on the reel and then bring the spinner right back to you so the other way i kind of like to fish spinners is um and i do this with spoons too and crankbaits is like a twitch twitch pause retrieve so basically same thing bomb cast the thing out there let it sink to the bottom you do a couple twitches and then you reel up your slack and then as you're reeling you just kind of twitch that that bait along so you don't really slow down your reel you just kind of twitch it every now and then give it like a twitch switch twitch and then keep reeling it kind of makes that spinner kind of flap around a little bit and that really gets a lot of bites for me sometimes other places you can check out while fishing ponds are areas with structure so big boulders lay downs logs trees things like that and steep banks um you can you can cast parallel with the shore along a steep bank and sometimes fish will be holding in there you know zipping through corralling bait fish smell things like that with the smaller streams and creeks you're going to want to use the smaller spinners and what you want to do to locate the fish is you want to find runs and riffles and this is where a lot of the fish are going to be holding and i made a pretty good video about this a while ago about fishing seams and i'll put that right up here so you guys can find that and it kind of talks about where to find fish and where they kind of hold so you're going to want to find these these runs they're going to be fairly small in little creeks cast into that run let it drift right along the seam there oh i just had to hit so i'm passing into this this ripple here letting the current take it downstream and it kind of naturally just falls right into the right into the seam and then we can reel it back and you can see down here there's kind of two seams i'm gonna cast right into the crotch of that and kind of just troll it real slow bring it back real slow let the current actually you know spin that blade for you there's one so what you want to usually do is be downstream at like a 45 degree angle cast up to the top of the run and let the bait kind of drift down through as you're reeling it in cast different distances i usually start a cast closer to myself and then further and further and further sometimes the runs are so small that you can't really do that so the best way to fish those is to actually wade out into the stream if you can get there onto a rock above the run so you're looking downstream now into the hole you flip your spinner out to the end of the pool there and then you just keep your rod tip down and slowly reel that bait in and you can even troll it there with the current flowing it will just naturally get that bait spinning on its own you can hold your rod there without even reeling and that a lot of times will trigger some pretty good strikes and the bait really sometimes kind of tends to fall right into the seam on its own if you let it sit there long enough so you can kind of just troll there and then get it up to the to the head of the pool and a lot of fish will be holding there also you always want to check boulders and any other lay downs just like you do on the ponds uh trout hold on structure a lot especially in flowing water they're going to hide behind the boulders to stay out of the current and then every anytime they see a little meal coming down through the stream they're going to pop off into the current grab it and then back behind the rock so always look at those spots and fish really close tight to structure so fishing the larger flowing water like i said it's going to be very similar to fishing the small creeks and streams you're just going to scale it up a little bit you're going to use those bigger spinners you can still use the smaller spinners but the larger ones the quarter ounce are going to cast a little bit further for you maybe it'll cover a little bit more water depending on how big of water you're fishing obviously but you want to fish it the same if you have a really big run you can cast up to the it's just like fly fishing you want to cast upstream and i like to let my spinner drift without even really reeling that much i mostly just pick up the slack as that spinner drifts down through the run and when it gets close to the end of the run then put your rod tip down and start reeling it in and at that point you can either troll it you can hold it right there and troll the spinner or you can just reel it back slowly um other ways to fish that is again cast upstream into the top of the run and slowly work it back to you i'd like to do like a hopping motion a twitch twitch and reel a slack up what i like to do is i'll get to the river and i'll make my first few casts just just kind of flick it out there a little ways nice and close and then make a couple passes with that flip it out another you know five ten feet beyond that then reel that in and then another five ten feet beyond that so that way you're not making a bomb cast you know as soon as you get there reeling your line and spooking any fish that could have been potentially right in front of you there you can look up a lot of videos on how to fish spinners in bigger water guys use it for steelhead fishing they're obviously bigger spinners but really the best thing to do is let that thing just drift down through naturally in the in the run and you just kind of pick up the slack and and then once it gets to the bottom of run engage that thing and just have fun further and further so see i cast it out into that little run out there it's a tail end of a run um we're on a corner here and i'm fishing letting it swing right down on that seam and just kind of hop in it and then a lot of times what i like to do is i let it kind of drift down through and then now my line is going 45 degrees downstream and i just troll it i just sit here and i can feel that blade kicking because i got this braid on this rod super sensitive and you can feel that blade spinning on that spinner and you just hold it there and troll it a lot of times i'll get strikes like that so there's a few tips and tricks for you guys on how to get started in spinner fishing if you guys have fish spinners your whole life maybe this video wasn't all that helpful for you but for the new guy that's looking to get into trail fishing it doesn't know what you know where to start what to do so maybe this has helped you out thanks for watching guys subscribe if you haven't already and we'll catch you guys next time yeah oh

Channel: Maine Trout Whisperer

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Length: 14min 40sec (880 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 03 2020