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early career inline spinners


diemai
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Just had a look in my storage boxes to replace one of these inline spinners , that I had lost to the river today and thought , that I might share these .

These were amongst my earliest lure models of my builders carreer , maybe about 15 years old ,.... those days I wanted heavier spinners than the ones available in shops , just to have them cast further and run a tad deeper .

The blades are homemade from 0,5 mm stainless steel sheet , for added weight I had first used discharged ammo casings , cast out with lead ,........in this case .357 mag cartridges .

The wire shaft is bent in a paperclip manner and cast into the casing , which's upper rim is bent a little inward with pliers to prevent the lead plug from sliding .

I made quite a few of these models , but later found out , that the body was somehow too heavy , ......the spinners came back in tail down , thus many did not work well .

These are the ones remaining , that for some reason still spin well ,.... all the others I had cut apart and used the bodies as bottom sinkers .

But since the idea itself was not bad , and I had already caught a few pike and perch on those few ammo casing models that did work , I came up with the idea to utilize simple metal tubing to also cast out with lead to act as the spinner bodies .

First tried brass tubing 8 X 0,5 mm(8mm dia. , 0,5 mm wall) , but the lead plug still was too heavy , the spinner still swam too much tail down for my taste ,..........so I got to try 8mm X 1,0 mm aluminium tubing , which turned out to be perfect ,.......due to its thicker wall it accommodates less lead inside ,......just turned out perfect to make up for the spinners to work well one by one .

For casting the lead into the tube , I had made myself a jig out of hardwood to put in tubing and wire form aligned , so that the sideward bore in the tubing(to prevent lead plug from sliding)would be covered whilst casting ,... so no molten lead could flow out .

Shown are some models painted with a "glow-in-the-dark" base and some with unpainted body to display the sideward bore in them .

Haven't fished these lures a lot for years anymore , but back in the 90's they had produced well , also lost a few:( !

greetz , diemai:yay:


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That is fun to look back & see how far you have come. Dieter, you never give up on trying something new or simply to improve something & I highly respect that. I look at members gallery history & the photos tell a great story. Keep the new & old ones coming.:yay:

Tim

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Those are some good looking baits you got, they are also very unique to! I think that the fish like the weird stuff IMO, this weekend me and my dad went to a good trout lake and he cut out some small spoons from some copper sheet and they just loved em!

But I really enjoy seeing what you have made, its very cool to see how you use the weirdest things and make them into an awesome creation:yes::worship:.

Thanks, Jacob

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Thanks a lot for your kind words , guys , ........much appreciated:yes: !

@ spoopa

How about a picture of your Dad's spoons ,....... guess I'm a bit crazy over spoons:lol:

Thanks again :yes::yay:, Dieter

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Dieter - nice blades, I can see these working on trout too. It's funny how we use a lure type for years which catch fish, then go onto some other style lures as if the fish get sick of the older ones, when in fact they catch fish today just as well as they did twenty years back - I might have to get out the 'celtas'.pete

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