beads or blades ?

boogie Posted 9/17/2004 9:24 AM (#22636) Subject: beads or blades ? Member Posts: 29 Location: Ontario, Canada I heard someone the other day saying that beads on your spinner rigs are more important than blades in clear water and that blades make the difference in muddy water. Any truth to this method ? What are your thoughts ? Sunshine Posted 9/17/2004 10:05 AM (#22637 - in reply to #22636) Subject: RE: beads or blades ? Member Posts: 2393 Location: Waukesha Wisconsin IMHO, blade is more important than bead color. Fine tune blade selection before fine tuning bead selection. walleye express Posted 9/17/2004 1:52 PM (#22652 - in reply to #22636) Subject: RE: beads or blades ? Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. Got to agree with Dennis on this one. I've had to much luck by simply replacing the blade color/type on the same colored beaded harnesses, versus the other way around. This isn't to say that certain colored bead combinations can't outshine others in certain water conditions. But changing out the blades first gets my vote. Edited by walleye express 9/18/2004 10:09 AM WalleyeFIRST Posted 9/17/2004 1:54 PM (#22653 - in reply to #22652) Subject: RE: beads or blades ? Member Posts: 1382 I'm not a huge believer in bead color, but I do switch blades alot. The blade imparts the action, sound and flash as opposed to only color so I would say the blade has a much greater imapct.