A Stellar Day on the River

I just had a stellar day on the river. They were taking a beetle spin like 10:1 over a jig. I honestly don't know how many 7 3/4"-8 1/4" fish I caught. I know it was over 125. These are the first spawners I've come across that weren't in a pond. Ponds warm faster and will have bedding fish before the river or lakes will usually. Those are not huge fish but are the biggest fish in this particular system. The biggest fish spawn first and get the best spawning sites; I'm so addicted to a beetle spin it's stupid.

History of the Beetle Spin 

Chuck Wood invented the Beetle Spin in 1963–1964. Virgil Ward saw it at the Fishing Shack in Olathe Kansas and his Bass Buster company produced it, then the Johnson Tackle Company bought out Bass Buster. Typically used for panfish, other sport species also attack the bait. A small blade is attached by a swivel (the as for overhead arm spinnerbaits), but the wire frame is formed into a spring clip that opens to allow a jighead to be attached by sliding the jig eye into position such that the jig hook runs in the same direction as the overhead blade.

Jighead dressings are on the short, more compact side and variable in material and design. The curl tail grub is popular, along with straight tail plastics and hair. The original jig dressing was called the cricket, a straight, double-tailed soft plastic creature that had little action except that it wagged up and down and side-to-side behind the spinning blade or with variations in retrieve speed. As the Beetle Spin became more popular, more designs were introduced and softer plastic was used for better action. Many species of fish will hit a Beetle Spin combo. Wikipedia