Spinner leaders

Made up three new spinner leaders last week in varying lengths. Purists might frown apon this method but as I mentioned last season I'd rather have a spinner blade running along my wire trace than have one attached to the actual hook of the fly. I've found these tiny spinner blades are most effective during the warm summer months when a faster than normal retieve is needed. I'm not sure they give off all that much vibration but they sure do add an extra attractive flash to the front of the fly.

spinner attractors

Heres something I picked up a couple of months ago when Rowland was out from the States. For some years now he's been using small spinner blades along his wire traces for an extra attractent and left me a couple to use. I'm always up for trying new ideas and by having the spinner mounted this way its freed me up from having to mount them to the fly itself. I feel no difference when casting although I suppose if you used much larger spinner blades it would add considerable weight to the front of the business end as well as affect the aerodynamics of your line as it looped through the air. Using the roly poly retrieve you get a constant spinning action but have found that a strip stop retrieve is equally affective as the spinner acts more like a fish in distress as it stutters then flitters before spinning again.

Sinner attractors

Many purests say that adding spinnerblades to your fly changes it more into a lure than a fly. I personally don't find anything wrong with the concept. Whether its a spinner blade,or a rubber jigging worm added to the hook or even a plastic diving lip......if I can cast it with a fly rod then its a fly in my eyes. This looks more like a trawlng fly due to the size of the blade and I would expect it works better with a small spinning rod but it has given me food for thought to maybe add tiny spinning blades to some of my flies.

I mean I've been known to add tiny propellor blades to the front of my flies.....so why not spinner blades. It would be interesting to hear what others think about adding attractors to a fly like propellors or spinner blades!