steelheadslayer
11-08-2004, 08:46 PM
After posting some pretty successful pics of some silvers I caught on hootchie spinners I was asked to post a diagram of making them. Here is a pic of the finished product on the right and the sequence of components to get there on the left.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/1863hootchie_spinner.jpg
I use a 2/0 Gami siwash with the open eye clamped to a #7 barrel swivel. I then close the eye on the spinner shaft around the other end of the swivel. Next I slide a 3mm bead, color doesn't matter, it's under the skirt. Then I stick the end of the wire shaft through the center of the hootchie head. It doesn't have to be perfectly centered. Then I put a #4 flo. orange body down the shaft followed by 2 bearing beads, one slightly smaller than the other. Then a #2 clevis and a #5 silverplate blade and then finish the loop at the leader end.
This is the color I've had the most success with. I've caught them on chartreuse bodies with chart. skirts. I've had hits with brass blades too.
I've gotten the blades and bodies from randb lures, see ads in STS. By no means are these the only colors that may work. These are just the ones I've had recent success with.
Again, I have to give props to fellow ifisher parker. Without his pics earlier this year I wouldn't have thought of putting them together this way. :applause: :applause:
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/1863hootchie_spinner.jpg
I use a 2/0 Gami siwash with the open eye clamped to a #7 barrel swivel. I then close the eye on the spinner shaft around the other end of the swivel. Next I slide a 3mm bead, color doesn't matter, it's under the skirt. Then I stick the end of the wire shaft through the center of the hootchie head. It doesn't have to be perfectly centered. Then I put a #4 flo. orange body down the shaft followed by 2 bearing beads, one slightly smaller than the other. Then a #2 clevis and a #5 silverplate blade and then finish the loop at the leader end.
This is the color I've had the most success with. I've caught them on chartreuse bodies with chart. skirts. I've had hits with brass blades too.
I've gotten the blades and bodies from randb lures, see ads in STS. By no means are these the only colors that may work. These are just the ones I've had recent success with.
Again, I have to give props to fellow ifisher parker. Without his pics earlier this year I wouldn't have thought of putting them together this way. :applause: :applause: