Thumper360

Thanks for your response. I recently switched to a bigger bearing and it completely fixed the issue. I have already caught 4 king salmon on the spinners that I have been making. Here is the biggest. It came in at 20 pounds! Thanks for the help guys.

Thank you for that. That is really valuable. I think im just going to buy everything as close as I can get to my favorite commercial spinner. I just went off that video to get a feel for making them. I just don't like the action. I did catch a fish on one though. Was a salmon or Steelhead like I was targeting, it was a baby Halibut, lol.

Update to the situation. I remade all rhe spinners the right way and went out for another test. They did better, but are still not consistent, and I am still not able to slow roll them like I can do with in my opinion the best spinner brand, and that is Kodiak Customs. Do i need a smaller blade to make this work? Because I noticed that the Kodiak Customs spinners I have seem to have much smaller blades than I am running from that video. Any more ideas? Or do I need to just start from scratch?

Well, I feel like a complete idiot. I can't believe I couldn't figure that out and missed that watching the videos. But hey, I'm glad ita such an easy fix. Problem is, I made about 15 the same way last night, haha! Now I have to disassemble them and make them the right way. Thanks for the help guys.

And yes, I pit this together on the International Space Station, as there is no gravity in the pictures, haha.

Hey guys. I'm obviously new to tackle making. To start out, I bought everything that was listed from a video on YouTube by the frugal fisherman. It is intended for kings and silvers up here in Alaska. I built the first one and immediately went to try it out. I spent 2 hours trying different tweaks to get it to spin right. I like the low and slow up here for salmon and it just wobbles at slower speeds. If I speed up the retrieve, it will spin, but it still has this annoying wobble to it. Just wanted to see if you guys have any advice. It just seems imbalanced. I wondering if the blade might be too big and the lure body is too short. Thanks in advance!