How To Fish With A Spinner : Effective Tips For You

Fishing with spinner rigs is an exciting fishing technique. That’s why today, the question arises a lot on “How to fish with a spinner?” This is known as an effective technique because, if you are able to use it properly, spinners can catch all types and species of trout.

Although, the tactics are quite different from one another. Today, we are here to let you know some of the effective tips on how to fish with a spinner rig.


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So, What’s a spinner?

What’s a spinner?

Well, that’s a common question. 

If you wonder to know how actually a fishing spinner works, here’s the answer.

The spinner, spinning the body, which motion reflects light and create some sort of vibration into the water, as it seems to be a small fish.

The spinners are a small, created by metal, fishing lures with blades which attract trout by spinning around a body. Spinners are works as baits.

A spinner can fool the target trout by this vibration, the target fish bite it and you get coughed by the spinner.

Remember, the spinner fishing technique can’t help you until you don’t know how to fish with a spinner properly or doing it incorrectly.

So, here are our instructions on how to fish With a spinner, please go through the content below.

Effective Techniques on How to Fish with a
Spinner
Bottom Bouncing
Live Lining
Chumming
Walking the Dog
Jigging

What You Need to Know about Fishing with Spinner Rigs

how to fish with a spinner

Fishing with spinner rigs needs you to consider some facts and setting out before starting the fishing journey. These are Blades, Water temperature, the size of lures, even the color of water, and water types.

Fishing Materials You Need

Fishing Materials

Fishing with a spinner also requires several materials and tools. You are gonna need the fishing materials like Rod and Reel, Fishing line, Fishing vest, Leaders, Bait, Spinners and some simple tools too.

Fishing Materials Info:

01. Rod and Reel

rod and reel

First of all, a nice combination of rod and reel is needed to fishing with a spinner.

You can buy a combo. Without perfect fly-fishing rod and reel, your techniques are useless. For spin fishing, use a shorter, lighter but sensitive rod and reel kit.

02. Fishing Line

fishing lines

Choosing fishing lines are decided based on the style of fishing.

Honestly, there are varieties of fishing line for specific types and specific trout you can found in the market.

Although fishing lines depend on fishing reels, but a 4-6-pound mono-filament fishing lines are ideal for spin fishing technique.

You always have the option of trying a fluorocarbon fishing line or braided fishing

03. Fishing Vest

Fishing Vest

To keep your gear and components organized and protected, a fishing vest is very important.

We recommend you to have a handy fishing vest so that you have enough space for all the equipment’s, tools, and tackles organized.

04. Leaders

Leaders can be defined as the attached material at the end of the fishing line which used to set or connect the bait or lure. Usually, leaders have various sizes and lengths. The main purpose of a leader is to minimize the visibility of the line.

05. Bait

Although, the spinners are also considered as baits, moreover in spinner fishing, there are also some flies you need to fool the trout. Most commonly the flies which are used as baits, they are: small crawfish, salmon eggs, insects, minnows, spoons, catfish and all other types of bait can be used.

06. Spinners

When the spinners come to the market, they also have different types and uncommon designs. Like Standard In-Line spinners, Spinner Baits, Buzz Baits, Live Baits.

07. Simple Tools

There are some small, simple but needy tools you always must carry in your fishing vest. Simple tools include types of pliers to cut the line, forceps to unhook fishes. Reserve extra nets, rigs, lures, baits etc.

Techniques on How to Fish with a Spinner

Here we broadly discuss the previously mentioned spinner fishing techniques. How should these techniques be performed, which techniques are best for which trout?

01. Bottom Bouncing

Bottom bouncing is a very effective spinner fishing technique in shallow and in deep water situations, for both resident trout and as well as steelhead.

Bottom bouncing can also be used on the fly rods and spinning rods. This technique will allow you to choose what size weights you personally want like split shot, bag split shot, pencil lead.

It is an effective method for catching cutthroat trout, bull trout, rainbow trout, brook trout.

Quick
Guide on How to Bottom Bouncing
Throw the spinner to the upstream side and wait until it touches the bottom.
When it goes down the bottom of the water, leave the spinner to bounce on the bottom, while it moving downstream. The movement of the spinner should attract the target.
Pull up and retrieve the fishing line with immediately so that the hook or lure work properly. Repeat the process.

You Can See The Tutorial : About Bottom Bouncing

02. Live Lining

Live lining fishing technique

Live lining fishing technique is the most common technique which is usually people follows. In this technique, a live bait generally used. The spinner cast away in naturally flowing water (i.e. in the river).

The bait of spinner goes under and through the covers, holes, behind rocks or bricks and other places where the fish probably hide.

If the trout bite the spinner-bait and try to fly away from the live bait, a force can be felt on fishing reels. If you forcibly retrieve the bait, the fish gets caught.

Quick
Guide on How to Live Lining Fishing
Through the line and wait until the bait reaches the bottom of the water.
If the fish bite the hook, retrieve the line.
Always allow the bait to go close to the bottom.

03. Chumming

Chumming-Technique

Some fishing expert believes that it is the most effective strategy to catch more fish. By names, chumming can be defined as a practice of luring various fishes (mostly sharks and other sea trout), by casting “chum” into the water. Chum is generally made from fish parts, fishbone, and blood, chopped vegetable, even meat which actually attracts the larger trout. 

This technique is generally used by seasoned anglers. Chumming allows the fish to return at those spots, where they actually won’t be there for a little time.

Quick
Guide on How to Chumming
If you want to apply Chumming strategy, first of all, you need to make chum.
You can also buy; however, you want. If you intend to buy some, that’d be good. Because the market chum is made with special mixes which are also made for specific trout species.
Or, if you chopped some ground vegetables, some bread, meats, pet food, crumbs, you actually made some already.
Throw the chum into the water. Remember: Do not throw all of them at once, use some portion.
This way, make a habit by chumming on the same spot. By doing that, you actually make that place a good fishing spot.

04. Walking the Dog

Walking the Dog is another great technique. Because this technique allows you to move the lure constantly back and forth and all the way around in a specific area. This constant movement of the lure makes an illusion that’s why the trout get confused. Walk the dog fishing technique can be used in top water base as well as the subsurface base.

Quick
Guide on How to Walking the Dog
Tie a loop knot of the lure, then throw the lure in the water.
Give some time so that the lure and line can settle into the water.
Hold the fishing rod above the water surface minimum 1-1.5 up, angling the rod and move it from left to right and right to left direction by using your wrist.
Make the movement natural as it seems to be a small fish is moving. Keep up the motion slow and steady.

You Can See The Tutorial : About Walking The Dog

05. Jigging

Jigging is a popular saltwater fishing method. With this method, you can catch various species of fish. Only you have to change the spinning rigs shape, color, play, and movement. Jigging fishing method is generally used for deep water fishing.

Quick
Guide on How to Jigging
Cast out your lure and wait some moment until the lure or hook touch the bottom of the water.
When it hit the bottom, pop up your wrist and retrieve the rod quickly from the water and again down your wrist and reel so that the hook can go to the bottom again.
Repeat this again and again, side by side, up and down or whatever you want. But do not pop up the rod too high. If you do that, this will actually prevent hooking properly if a fish bite.

You Can See The Tutorial : About Jigging


Frequently Asked Questions

01. Do You Use a Sinker with a lure?

Ans: Keep your load well away from the lure if you applying a sinker. Just as a broad snap swivel will impede with the Rapala authentic Floater’s action, bring your sinker too convenient to the lure will similarly inhibit it. … To fish topwater or in empty water, you don’t need a sinker at all.

02. What fish can you catch spinning?

Ans: Most category of fish can be captured by spin fishing; however, some are also impressionable to this technique than others. Familiar freshwater targets are trout, salmon, perch, chub, Bream, pike, Walleye, Blue Kurper and Bass.

03. Do you put bait on a lure?

Ans: In many idea, fishing with lures is akin to angling, while bait fishing is also like ambush. In other words, the bait fisher sets out his or her “traps” (baited hooks) and interval for the prey to bumble upon them. In contrast, a lure fisher can cover more water in less time.

04. What is the best lure to use for trout?

Ans: 10 Trout Lures You demand in Your Tackle Box:

  • Rapala Original.
  • Floating Minnow.
  • Blue Fox Vibrax.
  • Joe’s Flies Short Striker.
  • Panther Martin.
  • Acme Phoebe.
  • Worden’s Rooster Tail.
  • Acme Kastmaster.
  • Mepps Aglia.
  • Spinnerbait.
  • Acme Little Cleo.
  • Rebel Tracdown Minnow.

Conclusion

Although fishing techniques for different types, different species of fish varies. Moreover, the fishing technique also depends on water type, water-color, temperature, lure size etc.

But, we believe, you know how to fish with a spinner rig. This guide helps you a-z instructions and the materials you would need for spinner fishing. Spinner fishing can be used for catching a large variety of trout like salmon, pike, blue kurper, perch, bream, walleye, and bass.