Super Heavy Duty Buzzbaits and Spinnerbaits for Big Bass

These are the ones you want for the biggest bass in the baddest cover.

Huge 6/0 Long Shank Hook. This Mustad Ultra Point is the biggest, longest, strongest stock spinnerbait hook on the market. It's positively what you need for the biggest bass out there.

The style C buzzbait has a heavy duty .051 wire arm.

Style C Head. The Style C head is streamlined to snake right through brush and grass about as weedless as a bullet-shaped Texas rig sinker. It's the same tapered, conical nose shape, and shares the same weedless and snagless advantage as a bullet sinker.

The Style C head is very stable and does not roll over or on its side because it has a "belly bulge" of weight that acts as ballast to keep it from rolling over. This is an advantage over other typically wide, flattened, planing type buzzbaits heads. The wide, flattened types tend to roll over, retrieve to the side instead of straight, collect weeds on the wide head and wedge into brush. The Style C holds its course fairly straight and resists rolling up on its side during the retrieve. Due to it's bullet nose, it doesn't collect weeds or wedge into brush as much.

The compact frame keeps the buzzbait body up closer to the surface. There is a short distance between the nose arm and the blade arm. So it rides up higher over subsurface weeds and limbs.

The long, huge hook is set back so far to make the addition of a trailer hook unnecessary most of the time. This is a plus because having to add a second trailer hook raises the odds you'll get snagged or drag weeds along on the hook, ruining your presentation.

How to Hook a High Percentage of Strikes. As with all topwater baits, there is a knack to setting the hook. When a fish boils up on any topwater or buzzbait, you have to "sleep on them" meaning not set the hook at all. Just keep reeling steadily as if nothing's going on. Meanwhile, a big bass may be doing cartwheels all over your buzzbait. All gamefish, not only bass, miss topwater presentations a good percentage of the time. If you just keep reeling like nothing's happened, most fish will strike again until they grab the buzzbait (or whatever topwater lure) securely, then they'll go down with it. When you feel the solid weight of the fish moving downward, let the fish pull the line tight. All the whiole, you are reeling steadily. Chances are, the fish is not going to let go of its prize, but don't wait too long. Keep in mind, this all happens in an instant. Then set the hook with a solid sweep. Between you pulling on the rod and the fish gripping down on the bait against the resisitance it feels, you can hook a fish almost every time like this. If you master this technique, you will hook most every fish that strikes a properly-designed buzzbait like the one here. Trust me, it can be done! Practice makes perfect. If you do not master this technique, you will miss many strikes and you may find you often have to use a second trailer hook.

1/2 oz Buzzbait ~ Style C ~ Dark Chartreuse Shad

1/2 oz Buzzbait ~ Style C ~ Smallie Special

Style B Buzzbait. This is a big buzzbait with a total of five blades. Wire arm is .051 diameter. The 6/0 Mustad Ultra Point hook is huge. It's one of (if not "the") biggest stock spinnerbait hooks on the planet. The Style B head shape is very stable and does not roll up on it's side during the retrieve.

The two blades fit together and hammer against each other in addition to the clacker blade that ticks off the other four blades. Overall effect sounds like an old time train chugging down rickety old railroad tracks.

Fast or Slow? Let the Bass Decide. This buzzbait blade configuration can be retrieved fast and fish will explode on it that way. It can also be slowed way, way down (with the rod tip held high) and it will almost gurgle or cluck slowly at slower speeds. Its versatility is an asset of this blade set-up.

Some days they want the buzzbait slow, the next day fast. It's a trial-and-error method to begin each day to discover what the fish want from you, and once you get  results with a certain cadence, refine it, lock yourself into it and stick with it the rest of the day (or for however long as the buzzbait bite lasts).

3/4 oz Buzzbait ~ Style B ~ White Shad

The style C spinnerbait has a super heavy duty .045 Super Wire arm.

Super Heavy Duty .045 Super Wire. First, the arm is Super Wire, which is stronger and vibrates mor ethan ordinary spinnerbait wire. Second, it is .045 diameter, and that's thicker diameter than normally seen on bass spinnerbaits. It's rare to find thicker than .040 wire on bass spinnerbaits - but this one has .045 Super Wire for the biggest bass in the baddest cover.

1/2 oz Spinnerbait ~ Style C ~ Pearl Blue Chartreuse

Front Blade Painted White Outside, Chartreuse Inside. At first you may think both colors should appear equally visible, but that's not the case. Whatever color is on the outside (white here) is going to be the most visible, about 70% of the visible color will appear white (or what's outside) as the blade rotates. Whatever color is on the inside (chartreuse here) is going to be the least visible, about 30% of the color visible will appear chartreuse (or what's on the inside) as the blade rotates.

Great Flash Plus Two-Tone Color Blades. Back blade is unpainted nickel plated. Front blade is painted white outside, chartreuse inside. This gives you both great flash and great blade color both in the same spinnerbait presentation. It's the perfect presentation of both flash and color.

1/2 oz Spinnerbait ~ Style C ~ Smallie Special

Willow / Indiana Blades. It's rare to see this pair of blades, but it is one of the best blade combinations I use. This pair has three fantastic things that put it over the top:

1. The blades have concordance or appear to act the same as each other, meaning they rotate and flash tightly in synch with each other
2. The particular pairing appears to emit a bright, active flash. The whole effect in terms of flash, is much more than either blade alone (or when used in other blade pairs).
3. The pair appears to have fast action together. I do not mean to reel them fast, but that they appear to be revolving quite fast together. I do not know how else to describe this blade pair, except to say you've got to see it for yourself. It's a real producer for me, and can be for you too.

The blades on this bait are huge. Shown next to a quarter. This Style B spinnerbait has an extra long, heavy duty .045 wire diameter arm that enables it to support these two huge Willow blades.

The 3/4 oz Style B head is very stable and does not roll over or on its side with these big blades. It holds the blades perfectly upright.

This spinnerbait has it all - heavy flash and heavy vibration too. Because the wire arm is so thick and stiff, therefore less blade vibration is absorbed by the flex of the arm. Instead, much of the vibration goes down into the spinnerbait head and skirt, making a humpy, jumpy kind of throbbing pulse in the skirt.

The huge Mustad Ultra Point 6/0 hook is the biggest, longest, strongest stock spinnerbait hook on the market. It's positively what you need for the biggest bass out there.

3/4 oz Spinnerbait ~ Style B ~ Pearl Blue Chartreuse