Prawn Spinner

Here is my hot rig for Springers.  It is pretty much the same setup I learned from Jammer, the true salmon king, with a few changes.  It is a 3/0 hook in the front and a 1/0 on the rear.  Most of my fish have been hooked with on the small hook.  The way the prawn is rigged it should spin, sometimes I need to offset the prawn a  bit to get it to spin correctly.  The hot blade as of late for me has been a hammered bronze #4 or 5 Colorado blade, but any blade with chartreuse or bronze/gold seems to work.  About 3-4 ft above this I have a bead swivel and a spreader bar with 4-6 oz of weight. 
As far as trolling goes, troll slow, and when I say slow I mean real slow.  When trolling upstream I am pretty much creeping upstream, and when heading downstream I am only moving fast enough the get the blade spinning.  As far as depth I try to keep my bait about 15 ft to 25 ft deep.  In shallow water this means bouncing the bottom, and lots of snags.  In deeper water I just count my pulls.  Having a fishfinder helps with this. 

This is not the only successful bait I have seen.  Cutput herring rigged similar to this or behind a flasher has produced for some boats, and I am sure that kwikfish are also producing some.   I think the secret is to get your bait down there and troll slow. 

Now that I showed you my technique I expect lots of salmon porn this weekend.   

Thanks for the info Nate. 

BTW, if you can add a few more photos of the whole rig and some of a step by step  on putting the prawn on the hooks and I'll turn it into a new article on the front page.   We could use some a new article or two.

Excellent info. Nate!

I might add, as the river warms up, more and more sprginers will be caught on spinners.  Conventional wisdom says herring early in the season and spinners later in the season.   And let's not forget the old addage "Gold Plus Red makes springers dead!" 

-Spot-

Good stuff Nate.  Thanks.  I hope to get out there this weekend. 

Thanks for the info Nate. 

BTW, if you can add a few more photos of the whole rig and some of a step by step  on putting the prawn on the hooks and I'll turn it into a new article on the front page.   We could use some a new article or two.

Nice work Nate!

Brian, FYI...I have already begun putting together a prawn spinner tutorial for the website as Spot sent me a PM asking for something yesterday.

Eitherway, let's see more fish porn.....

Jammer, if you need any help writing the article let me know.

I guess Spot and I were thinking on the same wave length.   Looking forward to the article no matter who does the write up.

Brian

Good stuff, thanks man.

Awsome!

Did you buy the pieces separately? It looks a lot like a Wedding Ring. I think I'm going to try and modify one to look like like that.

I also found this very helpful for the rigging:
http://www.luhrjensen.com/downloads/tech-sheets/578EricsPrawnRig.pdf

Erik

You can use this rig with a herring also to add some extra bling.

-Spot-

I purchased all the pieces separately and built my own.  For the most part it is an over sized wedding ring.  I-fish also has some good threads with pictures on prawn spinners. 

Spot, with herring would you recommend sticking with bigger hooks like the 3/0?

Spot, with herring would you recommend sticking with bigger hooks like the 3/0?

I usually run one size lower on the trailing hook.  I'm usually running a 4/0-3/0 combination.  You could probably get away with the 1/0 if you let it trail a ways.

-Spot-