Spinners
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northeast1
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Cheap as possible about 2oz, i use home made bar spinners, to be fair a mackerel will hit anything that flashes in front of it so i really cant see the point in spending loads on them.
5150
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I agree with Richy, I've found the £1 - £1.25 plain old cheapy fish shaped junk do the job perfect. Split a string of daylights in half if you want (please flatten the barbs if you're not fishing to keep though to minimise injury to the fish). I normally use one spinner alone or a single spinner with 2 day-lights if the going is slow.
Permanent marker in my tackle box to mark some eye-spots on the spinner at times - if you do this then either add and extra hook at the front or mark the eye spots at the back.
Permanent marker in my tackle box to mark some eye-spots on the spinner at times - if you do this then either add and extra hook at the front or mark the eye spots at the back.
paulthespark
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as Richie said any spinner that flashes will do , when mackerel are on the feed they will take anything that is shinny or brightly coloured, but i did try the dextor wedge for the first time last year with great success.
The Great Wallsendo
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Looking away from the macky - dexter wedges types and stretched out/twisted wedges do pretty well for other species I have found
codseeker
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paulthespark
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bass will hits spinners at any time of the day, along with coalies, weaver fish, whiting, lounce, twaits shads, sea trout, salmon and on occations even flatties, roll on the summer.
these ones work well for me used them for years.
Ah! the good old Shenton ,if Carlsberg made spinners it would be these.
Probably the best Mackeral spinner you can get.
I remember when Dicki first started making them.
paulthespark
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even after using the wedges last year,with great success ,i still think the abu toby outfishes every spinner on the market.
seanyrooroo
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Ah! the good old Shenton ,if Carlsberg made spinners it would be these.
Probably the best Mackeral spinner you can get.
I remember when Dicki first started making them.
For years the only spinners you would see on Seahams pier. Cant beat a Dicky Shenton spinner!!
john/r
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only one spinner for me the shenton spinners .actualy the inventor dick shenton i get on with his son ritchie well great lad . ritchie still makes them quater ounce/1 ounce/2ounce and the 8 ounce one . i have the 1 ounce and two ounce ones in the house plus an 8ounce one for the boats ritchie and i make another mould about three years back ritchie still had his dads templates.
they are a work of art three features of them they cast well when you sink and draw with them on the draw the spin in the water on the sink they are like a injured fish.
richies dad told me that some days all the fish would take is an injured fish and some days a live swimming fish.i would,nt disagree as he was way ahead of his time on the fishing scene.
bait digging everyone knows of berwick it was unbelievable what dick and his mates used to dig up there you had to see it to believe.
they are a work of art three features of them they cast well when you sink and draw with them on the draw the spin in the water on the sink they are like a injured fish.
richies dad told me that some days all the fish would take is an injured fish and some days a live swimming fish.i would,nt disagree as he was way ahead of his time on the fishing scene.
bait digging everyone knows of berwick it was unbelievable what dick and his mates used to dig up there you had to see it to believe.
