Produced and fished long before the modern buzzbait ever appeared on the market, the WeedWing churns up the top of the water and provokes vicious strikes from bass, muskie and pike. Double weed guards keep the hook clear of snags while the spoon-shaped body makes the lure rise quickly and keeps it at the surface at a moderate retrieval rate. Per each. Size: 3-1/4", 1/2 oz.
Colors: (001)Nickel, (009)Green, (096)Chartreuse.
I have an old Johnny O' Neill and bought one of these to replace it in my tackle box......I mustn't have been thinking the one I got is 2x the size of my old one. I like it though and caught a lgmouth and a few nice pickerel with it. Well constructed and the twirl-a-ma-jig works consistantly.
overall the design is ok - body is ok, hook is decent, weedguards are a nice design, but the propeller at the top of it just wont spin through the weeds, lillies, etc that im throwing it into. i could have gotten a bad apple, but i also think its too heavy to do what its intended to do so two strikes for me. if you're looking for something that spins really well and is totally weedless try the terminator inline spinner. cabelas seems to be the only place that carries it!
Years ago, about 45, I had one of these in yellow red diamonds and green/white stripe. I caught more pike on those things than I dare remember.
Lost one to a log and the yellow to the heaviest fish I've never seen, on a trophy lake in Northern Manitoba.
Never saw these lures again until a couple years ago here, on sale. I bought both sizes in all colours, planning to try them on bass and big trout. I no longer live near pike or walleye fisheries.
Yellow/red diamonds in the smaller size and frog in both sizes work on bass around the weed/reed beds. Red/white in small sizes and silver also work, and the black one is dynamite in the evening and early AM, but you can make do with the frog pattern. Put a narrow, 1/2" white stripe diagonal on the black one. I wish they still sold the green white stripe as that was an unfair advantage against pike.
Toss it out (they go a long way), and start reeling, but not too fast. You don't want the body to spin just wobble, and you want to keep it just above the weed tops. The blade will spin at that speed and add a gurgle. They are best subsurface, down to 3'. You'll get hit hard, and by good fish.
You can also get great success right at the reedbed edges by jigging... up with moderate wobbling speed, let fall & flutter... You can see the pike flash out of the reeds to grab & turn. Years ago I really choked my dad doing this, by getting two in the boat in the time it took him to land one troll-caught smaller fish.
I suggest mono line or a shock leader on braid, and keep the hooks sharp because using only braids you can rip the hook out of your fish if you set too quick or the fish is big, and mostly they are. They hit and turn fast.
I hadn't seen these at Cabela's since I made my last purchase, a couple years ago.
If you're a trophy basser, try the frog and play the reed beds. See what you think. (haha, imagine, spoons in a tournament)
One evening, me and my father went fishing(In NB) and he hawled out this lure I haven't seen before. And sure enough, it was this Weedwing.The first or second time he threw it out, he landed a two and a half foot pickerel. I was amazed, because most of the fish down here aren't that big. however, the next time we threw it out, it never came back...now its sitting at the bottom of the lake. Sob...Sob...I never got the chance to go get another one, since was really good at catching these fish.The pickerel was the biggest one my father caught.