Tail Spins

[hunter7711]

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[JUNGLEJIM1]

I fished the Tailgunners or tail spins two days on two different lakes. They worked great!! Between last night and this morning I made enough to fill up a box. Here are some finished ones. Candy Bait, the dart and whiptail blade combo looks interesting. I'm wondering what kind of action it would have with that blade. I have some of those blades around here somewhere. There are a lot more possibilities with these tailspins we need to look at.

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

Update on the ATTICA inspired tailspins or tailgunners as I call them now.Thursday morning I got out and headed to one of my favorite big crappie holes.River was falling finally and the lake next to it was dropping and emptying back into the river through a couple of large drainage tubes. The fish wouldn't touch a regular jig so I tied on a tailspin and fish jumped all over it. I caught mostly crappie but caught bass,white bass,bluegill,drum and even a buffalo. The crappie were in the 9-12 inch range mostly,still full of eggs. When the action slowed with the tailspin I switched to a pillhead spinner and started catching them again. I caught so many I actually lost count,of course that usually happens past 10. Here are a couple pictures of what I was using. The only thing wrong with these baits are that almost half the crappie were swallowing the tailspins and I didn't have any hemostats with me. I ended up finding a small stick several inches long that did the trick and I was able to unhook them using that. Cold front moved in that night and I went back Friday after the front but didn't catch 1/4 as many as the day before. 30 degree drop made a huge difference.

 

[oldfox]

Haven't tried any tail spinners yet, but looks like I need to put them on my to do list. Nice looking work Jim...

 

[Jig Man]

Hummmmm, very interesting!

 

[Len]

What size swivels and blades do you guys use?

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

I've been using #12 crane swivels with #0 Indianas or #1 willows. I like tails on mine but I've been tying them short,otherwise the longer tails keep the blades from spinning properly.

 

[Len]

I've been using #12 crane swivels with #0 Indianas or #1 willows. I like tails on mine but I've been tying them short,otherwise the longer tails keep the blades from spinning properly.

Thanks JJ and those look teriffic!!!

 

[Mack]

Those are purdyyyyy *0000s* I really like the first one on top