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I can also show you how to make up a spinner fairly quick here. Right here I have some
of our spinner parts and I laid some out over here so I can make one up pretty quick. You
have your body here, or your shaft, and what I'll do is take a piece of tubing here and
slide it over the hook. One of the things we have here on the stream is hook regulations,
and you can only use on a lure, a hook with a 3/8" from point to shank. So we put the
tubing on here and you'll take the wire shaft, and these are pre-made. You can pick them
up from Bass Pro or some of the other sports shops. And this is the body, just a Meps-type
body and just slide it on like this and push that in. What I do is take some needle nose
here and I'll bend this shaft over. Then I put the body's head on, making it look kind
of like an insect. Then I like to put a bead on, usually a plastic bead. Then I use another
bead, like a ball bearing bead. I think the plastic slows the blade down so I put this
metal ball bearing bead on. Then I take a stirrup and put the blade on, this is a french-type
spinner blade. And then here you have the body made up and it spins fairly easily. Then
just take some needle nose pliers and bend it around like this, make a couple of twists.
They also have spinner makers which makes it a little easier, but out in the field here
its just simple and easy to make up. Take some side-cutters and there you have a spinner
that would normally cost you $3-$4, you can make these for about $.50 a piece making them
yourself. And since we use a lot of these on the streams, we also lose a lot of these
on the streams. So it saves you quite a bit of money if you make them yourself. So one
of the things when you start fishing these, you want to make a slow retrieve with the
blade just barely spinning and you're right up off the bottom with it. A lot of times
we'll just let them hang in the faster water and just sit there and the fish will come
right up after it.