Mini spinnies

[ontherise]

Does anyone use mini spin doctors? If so, when would you use them and for what species? I have heard they work well for cohos. I have some but never used them.

YO!

[hawkeye625]

Orange ones work well for coho with a peanut fly.  White crush/mt dew with a hammer fly has put a few kings in my boat early in the season when the water is pretty cold and they don't want the bigger spinny's.  Also seem to trigger strikes after the AM bite shuts down (long lead off riggers or off copper).  Haven't had much luck running them off dipsy's. 

[Gill-T]

I call them rod movers because if you want to get some rods moving put one of them out. An orange double crush spiny with cutdown 3" fly on a 4 or 5 color will catch fish every time out.

[BAZOOKAJOE]

What length lead between spin dr and fly?

[hawkeye625]

shorter leads for coho's/small fly, (12"-18") longer leads for salmon. (18"-30") I usually just swap flies off my 8" attractors for salmon.

[Tim Bromund]

Along with the Orange/Orange mini doctor, the Chartreuse with Orange tape one has been killer on coho for me as well, particularly on 2 color and 3 color cores.

Edited January 30, 2015 by Tim Bromund

[Egoody]

Mini Spin Dr,

How big are they? I have regular SD's but haven't heard of the mini,s

 

Egoody

[Tim Bromund]

They are 6"

 

http://www.greatlakestackleshop.com/products.php?cat=24

[BrokeOff]

what do you do with these? they are even smaller than the 6in spin dr.

[Yankee Troller]

Along with the Orange/Orange mini doctor, the Chartreuse with Orange tape one has been killer on coho for me as well, particularly on 2 color and 3 color cores.

 

Yea, that is a good one Tim! 

[DJ 17]

Broke off,

We run those small pro-trolls on the finger lakes with a small spoon behind. We have caught landlocks and rainbows and occasional laker early in the year on them in the upper half of the water column.