dstieger wrote:I throw spinners for shad for a couple weeks a year....the shad don't much care if they're Mepps, Panther Martin, or Chinese ebay specials. And for a week in Canada, I take custom bucktails. I just don't get on water with trout very often any more.
Mepps, rooster tails, and those Chinese spinners all have some major design issues that make them non-options for me...
The weight to size ratio for one... Lots of the trout areas I fish need a micro presentation, and none of those spinners pack enough casting weight in their micro sizes...
The much more glaring issue to me is the blade... On the aforementioned lures, the blade is attached to a clevis that revolves around the shaft.... As anyone who's thrown one of these lures for any period of time knows, the clevis is notorious for locking up, twisting the blade up around the line, etc...
Panther Martin utilizes a patented shaft-through-blade system that ensures the blade spins no matter what...