Success Stories

10/28/2014
Robert from Kaizer, Oregon put together some cool looking weighted casting spinners with some SG series blades and hoochies and got some nice coho. The SG series blades have been working well throughout the summer/fall season. This is the first report of these blades being used in a casting spinner capacity. I'm glad they worked for you Robert. Thank you for the pictures and the report!
"Built myself some weighted spinners for casting using your blades. Went to Lincoln City to the mouth of the Siletz River. Fished the last hour plus of the incoming tide. This is the result. Hope you can see the lures. Only 1 other fish caught while we were there, sold 3 lures. You have a repeat customer. When the second fish hit, I handed the pole off to my neighbor's grandson. He was thrilled."

10/19/2014

Daryl out of San Jose, California
did some modification on his flashers with some of Spinner Dave's lure tape dots. Here is his report:
"I want to share a success story with you. I buy the short bus flashers for use down here in the Bay Area for Salmon fishing. I have had success with all of them with the exception of the Black/UV flasher. I saw on your website the dot combinations you added to your flashers, which is why I bought some of the the dots from you. I added 3 Fl. Red dots on both sides to this flasher and took it with me to give it a try. The boat had not had a hit for 3 hours and it being a charter boat had 22 people on board. I threw this flasher on and dropped it down, within 15 minutes I got a hit and landed a nice 19 lb. Salmon. Thank you for the info you provide, its always nice to have information sharing from one fisherman to another."

Thank you for the report Daryl! I appreciate your sharing your success and I'm happy that you could translate the products I sell to fish in the box.
Nice fish by the way! Dave

You may of heard the bells and whistles go off last Thursday about 9:30 a.m.. It has been a long time but I actually caught a fish of my very own. I fished with James from Rio Vista, California. We fished the lower end of the Sacramento River on Wednesday and Thursday. I hooked up a nice fish on Wednesday that came unhooked right at the boat and then redeemed myself with a nice little hen on Thursday. Both fish came on the green/chartreuse blended 50/50 both side pattern with the chartreuse skirt. I had a great captian in James and a great couple days on the water. See my "Talkin Spinners" blog page for a details on my trip.
Thanks James!

Summer 2014
It was a great summer for Spinner Dave's thanks to a great bunch of customers. I received some great fishing reports and photos from customers from Alaska down throughout the Northwest and California. Thank you very much for that. Below is a collage of many of the photos sent in. Please see my post on the "Talking Spinners" page of this website for details on some of the stand out blade patterns over the summer/fall seasons. Thanks again and good fishing to you. Dave

Late May in Tillamook Bay...                             6/2/14
Mike and Nick Arnold (Absolute Angling Products Yamhill, OR) and Phil Reed (Newport, OR) have been fishing Tillamook Bay for springers the last couple weeks. Although it has not been red hot fishing, their boats have been getting a few of these awesome fish. Mike and Nick have been having luck on the B10 #8 blade in the blue/chartreuse dot and chartreuse with green dot patterns.
   Phil's boat put a nice fish in box on a chart/red 50/50 pattern in the FB 7 which is his go to size/style for the springer fishery in Tillamook Bay.
All three of these guys are back at it, hitting the water hard as of late. I am looking forward to more pictures!
   As an aside, both boats report that they have released some nice sea-run cutthroat trout in the bay on the SG Series blades. Seems those fish like the flash that comes off those patterns.

Thanks for the pictures and reports!

It's good to know that this stuff works!

I am very fortunate that I have customers that are as crazy about fishing and spinners as I am. Many of my customers have been good enough to forward pictures of their experiences. I have added this page to my website to share their successes and maybe give others some ideas for patterns that might work in their own fisheries. Enjoy!

2013 was a crazy busy year. Thanks to my great customers, Spinner Dave's had it's best year yet. So, that kept me very busy and I did not get the time to post any photos. So, here you go...I will continue to add photos to the album below until I run out of 2013 photos. Thanks to everyone who sent me photos and reports...I appreciate it!
You can click on the first photo and enjoy larger images in a gallery if you wish...

Secrets Revealed

Greg from Idaho had some more good luck
on the Nehalem and sent a photo of the spinners that were hitting fish. I had a feeling there would be some red and white involved in the success. Thanks Greg.

Bait Rigs-Summer of 2012

I had talked to a few of my customers about the success I had in my silver fishing over in Seward this past August using the #3FB blade in front of my herring. The image at top left shows how I rigged it--the beads are 5mm size, the blade is a #3 FB hammered gold with a chartreuse tip. This set up was, by far, the favorite of the fish in the image bottom left. We did get fish on plain bait and spinners but this rig was the go-to consistently over a week long fishing period. It even worked on the mooch when we stopped the boat on a hook up and worked baits on the batches of fish around the boat. I did not have any other colors with me to try but I would of liked to have tried the green, red and orange as well to see if any of them worked as well or better than the chartreuse. Definitely worth a try.

Buoy 10 Sucess

Jim from Washington had some good fishing at Buoy 10 this summer. I did not get any details on what the secret blade pattern was that boated the nice fish in this photo but I am determined to find out. Thanks Jim.

Nice fish at Wheeler...

Greg from Idaho is at it again in 2012 at Wheeler on the Nehalem in Oregon. A couple of nice chinook...
Dave,
When noone else was catching anything I got the lucky hand using your spinners...one was 30# one was 41#...both got away from the seals.
Thanx
If you are headed in the direction of the Nehalem, a good source for information and tackle is Jim at the Wheeler Marina.
Wheeler Marina--278 Marine Dr. Wheeler, OR 97147 (503) 368-5780

Bead Fishing for Steelhead

Rob Crandall, owner of Water Time Outfitters in Oregon had some good success with the Ultimate Pink and Washout Pink beads for steelhead. "Thanks again for sending those beads! The first day I used them was on Friday and they worked great! We hooked 7 fish that day and 5 were on your bead!".
To check out what Rob does, go to www.watertimeoutfitters.com
Thanks Rob!

Barracuda

Rick from Texas went down to the Bahamas with an interesting creation and found some great success. "The lure is made with 60lb teflon coated stainless steel wire with your beads,and blades..." Looks like this place will have to be on my list of places to go. Thanks for sharing the creation with us Rick. Definitely one of the most unique success stories as far as species go...

Nehalem, Oregon

Greg from Idaho gets into kings and coho on the Nehalem River each season. He fishes out of the Wheeler Marina, which is right on the river in Wheeler Oregon. Spinners can be productive for both species and Greg gets around great in his drift boat. His buddy Jim at the Wheeler Marina is on top of the bite so if you are thinking of going, don't hesitate to get in touch with him. Jim's contact information is below.
Wheeler Marina--278 Marine Dr. Wheeler, OR 97147 (503) 368-5780

Columbia River

Wayne from Washington topped off the summer with a 40 URB on the Columbia this last August. Nice fish, Thanks for sharing Wayne.