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walleye express

Posted 4/2/2009 10:28 AM (#79816)
Subject: One more Brainstorm.

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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay.

Some of you might remember a post I made a few days ago about the Old June Bug Spinner (JBS). We used these JB spinners when i was growing up, way back in the late 50's through the 60's in front of plain crawler harnesses for walleyes. And at the time, this attachment was about the only rigging trick a man had to use to entice more strikes from walleyes and many other fish species. I was actually kinda shocked that somebody even still made them, but ordered a few of each color to try out again on our modern day walleyes.

But just for kicks this morning I attached one in front of one of my spoon harness rigs. Went back to the swimming pool in the back yard and gave her a swim. I'm here to tell you the action was amazing. The spinning, tapered blade on the JBS throws lots of flash, yet allows for plenty of water to get by the blade and keeps the spoon flipping back and forth and doing it's thing just fine. So you have a combination of the spinning blade in front and the flipping spoon behind. Here's the picture of the rig below. And I'm going to try and take some video with my HD video camera and see if I can get it posted so you all can see this amazing action. Here's also the link to where I bought the JBS. http://www.angler-al.com/lures.html

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sworrall

Posted 4/2/2009 3:41 PM (#79822 - in reply to #79816)
Subject: Re: One more Barinstorm.

Location: Rhinelander

The old June Bug is very popular in a modified version up in Canada, that looks killer!

rodman1

Posted 4/2/2009 8:42 PM (#79833 - in reply to #79816)
Subject: Re: One more Brainstorm.

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Posts: 15

Years ago we used to make up weight forward lures for Lake Erie using the June bug spinner Blades. The big advantage was that the blades spun on the fall and you could work the lure very slowly and the blade was always spinning, We used to buy the Hildebrandt Spinner packs and cut the blades off as they wouldn`t just sell the blades. They were made of
a much heavier blade thickness and their plating was mirror like. The arm was riveted to the blade and would not collapse
as those can. I heard Hildebrant was taken over by Wordens but I don`t know if the June Bug Blades are still available.
We used to throw them on 3/4 to 1-1/4 oz. weight forwards. They were deadly on the big old hogs that hung out on the
Canadian side before anybody even thought of trolling for them. The leadslingers of the 80's.
Tom Cooney

fishthrills

Posted 4/6/2009 6:47 PM (#79944 - in reply to #79816)
Subject: RE: One more Brainstorm.

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Location: Beloit

Hey Dan, Those look like they will add a very nice action and will be a good walleye catcher. Let us know how they work out. They still look like a nice fancy earring to me?

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