Spinners

[wavy davy]

With the mackerel season coming soon what type of spinner do you prefer to use and do you think there is much of a difference between certain types. I use the stavanger and sidewinder sandeel.

[shaun]

ive bought 3 of them dexter wedges 28g havent used them yet but they sound good, will have to wait and see

[codseeker]

i make me own lead ones they about 40grams

[northeast1]

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]

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.

[paulthespark]

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]

Looking away from the macky - dexter wedges types and stretched out/twisted wedges do pretty well for other species I have found

[codseeker]

these done the job for me i also do colour the eye with black marker to give better effect or add silver sticky foil to them had pollock mackerel and cod on them

[shaun]

these done the job for me i also do colour the eye with black marker to give better effect or add silver sticky foil to them had pollock mackerel and cod on them

theres some on ebay which look the double of them

[codseeker]

theres some on ebay which look the double of them

nice one mate have you got a link

[shaun]

Mackerel Spinners 4 x 40grms ,Pike ,Pollock ,bass on eBay (end time 13-May-10 23:14:19 BST)

they stole your pic

[codseeker]

aye same ones me mate had a nice cod on them last summer up st abbs

[PRIMO MAN]

these ones work well for me used them for years.

[paulthespark]

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.

[sandworm]

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.