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Location: Southern MN | I've just started making my own spinners and replaced the blades on a pink Blue Fox Super Vibrax that had most of the pink paint come off after little use.
I picked up some Lakeland blades and rebuilt the spinner. I dropped it in the water with the new blades (testing along with a few new ones I'd made) and the paint on the back of the blades instantly flaked off. I didn't even cast it, just free spooled it into the water and there was a cloud of paint chips. Maybe this was just a bad batch as the guy at Thorne Bros. had no reservations about the Lakelands but I'm a little leery of building any more baits with these blades over the winter without some feedback or recommendations.
What blades would you guys recommend that have a durable painted finish? Thanks! |
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Location: Freedom, WI | A friend of mine builds tails and he told me Lakeland did have a bad batch. |
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| I buy a bunch of bucktails from a local person that only uses blades from Dutch Fork Custom Lures (http://www.custompaintalure.com/). The paint jobs are always amazing and really hold up well.
--Joe |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | I think the blade colors are just for fisherman. Some on my best buck tails are the ones that look like a shredded pop can at the end of the season, no paint on the blades and 1/2 the skirting gone, it seems the worse they get the more fish they catch. I'm a firm believer that muskies eat spinners because of the vibration / speed, because they look nothing like a bluegill or a walleye. With that being said, if you're selling them you do need good paint!!! |
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Location: Southern MN | Thanks for the replies, these must've been part of that bad batch. I've had a few painted spinner blades and a MI chatterbait blade that haven't held up well in the past but nothing like those. The other pair of blades I got seem much better.
DIZZYHORSE, I agree with you the majority of the time, the color is usually a lesser factor than vibration and speed. I've got one DCG that's been hit way more than any other; I wouldn't be surprised if there was something just a little different in the vibration of that bait from being bent and mangled over and over that triggers fish better than an out of the box spinner. |
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