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When is a good time to use an underspin?

Underspin lures are particularly effective in certain conditions and situations when targeting bass. Here are some ideal scenarios for using an underspin:

Clear Water Visibility: Underspins work best in clear water conditions where visibility is at least three to four feet. This allows the flash and vibration of the blade to attract bass from a distance.
Suspended Fish: These lures are designed to target suspended bass, not those hugging the bottom. You'll want to fish them at different depths depending on where the bass are holding in the water column.
Mixed Species Lakes: Lakes that contain a mix of largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth bass are particularly conducive to using underspins. These fish are more likely to suspend, making them ideal targets for this type of lure.
Fishing Ditches and Coves: In the fall and winter, bass often move to ditches or channels within coves. These areas can be hot spots for underspin fishing.
Around Hard Structure: Fishing underspins around bridge pilings, deep docks, marina docks, wave breaks, and other man-made structures can be very effective, especially in the summer and fall.
Schooling Fish: When bass are schooling, especially in the summer and fall, an underspin can be cast long distances to reach the action and mimic the baitfish they're feeding on.
Deep Flats and Rock Piles: A slow retrieve with occasional twitches along deep flats and rock piles can entice bites from less active bass.
Weed Lines and Cover: Underspins can also be pitched accurately into weed lines or thicker cover like brush and docks, thanks to their heavy and aerodynamic design.

Remember, the key to fishing an underspin effectively is to maintain a steady retrieve that keeps the lure in the strike zone of suspended bass, while allowing the blade to spin and attract attention. Adjust your technique based on the behavior of the fish and the conditions of the day.

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Fall Situations Where Underspins Outperform Every Other Lure… by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → scenarios that you can catch fish on this if you're not familiar with it because I really think even though it was is well known as an underspin is in the like competitive fishing I still think there's a lot of people that have never caught a fish on it I mean when you talk about just the average bass angler maybe somebody getting started just Intermediate A lot of people don't fish this they don't know anything about them or how to fish them or what the deal is but they are tremendous fish catchers under certain situations now first of all one of the things that you have to understand about and underspin it is solely its sole purpose and the sole design for it is to fish for suspended fish you're not fishing this thing on the bottom ever you can fish it close to the bottom but you never fish it on the bottom this lure is designed to catch suspended fish in different depth ranges depending upon the water clear 30 and time of year so what I sort of wanted to do is sort of run through my favorite scenarios what to look for so first of all the actual underspin setup here this is my favorite setup this is the Mega bass four inch spark Shad here and I've got the gamangat suit it's a 3 8 ounce underspin on it it's got a good about a four out

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Fall Situations Where Underspins Outperform Every Other Lure… by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → three and a half feet at the minimum on up to as clear as you want it but you got to have water visibility pushing that forefoot zone if you don't have that the under spin is not going to be that good at The Lure but still there's a lot of lakes across the country where you know that falls into that category the second thing with that it really helps if you have a lake that has some mix of largemouth and spotted bass and or smallmouth bass because if you've got a mixed species Lake those type of lakes are a lot more conducive to Basta spending than just a pure Largemouth plague so all your Lakes across the country like the Ozarks lake Lake Lanier in Georgia your Eastern Tennessee Lakes all those type of lakes that have a mixed species are really good Lakes for this particular lure category what I look for in the winter time is I'm fishing the ditches now to to make this simple the best thing you can do or the easiest way to do it is to go to the lower end of the lake in the clear water the lower end is going to be the cleaner water and start going into all the coves on the lower end of the lake and idle down the middle of the coves until you hit like 40 to 50 foot of water now once

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Underspin Fishing Lure Tips, How They Work Underwater, How to Fish Underspins by Fishing with Nat → swarming a ball of bait fish I like to use a medium light to medium action spinning setup and 6 to 10 pound line braid mono or fluoro are all fine braid is really nice for heavy underspins because of the long casts and no stretch for a solid hook set these baits are also great with a slow retrieve along deep flats and rock piles for lazier bass and walleye just retrieve it steadily and maybe give it a twitch now and then the trailer and the blade do most of the work for you when fishing Deep Rock piles consider using fluorocarbon line or at least a fluorocarbon leader to get down there faster and resist abrasion a bit better don't overlook the power of an underspin along weed lines or in thicker cover like brush and docks these lures are heavy and aerodynamic so it's easy to pitch them accurately right up in there the worst thing about an underspin is how easily it can stop working without you having any clue let's get into the details of how underspins work so you can make sure you know how to fish these cool baits most of an underspins profile in action come from the jig head in the trailer underspin jigs tend to have Willow Leaf spinner blades because there isn't usually a lot of clearance beneath the trailer the blade spins on a small swivel and is usually held away from The

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Fall Situations Where Underspins Outperform Every Other Lure… by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → good way to catch them you know all through the summer and fall and another way in the summertime to catch them that's really good isn't around any hard structure so if you've got like Bridge pilings if you got off the end of deep docks like Marina docks wave breaks any type of hard man-made structure you can also swim the underspin on it too and this can be a really good school in lure if you're if you're out fishing in the summer of the fall and you see them schooling this this since this thing is pretty heavy and cash really good you can fire it way out there keep it close to the surface and catch the schooling baths with it and the same thing sort of happens back in the fall as far all progresses and you start getting where those water temperatures start getting down into the 50s again the next place that those fish move in is back into those ditches the ditches or the middle of the coves if I could give you one piece of advice on an underspin concentrate on the ditches and the coves and a ditch is a ditch is just another word for the channel in the middle of a Cove when it goes back in there now you can do the same thing in Creek arms like for example there's there's one of these major Creeks I fish in Table Rock all

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Underspin Fishing Lure Tips, How They Work Underwater, How to Fish Underspins by Fishing with Nat → today we're talking under spins an underspin is a type of swim bait with a spinner blade attached to it underspins come in two different styles a jig head style and a belly weighted style that uses a weighted ewg hook for making a weedless underspin rig an underspin with an exposed hook can still get you through light vegetation okay like you see here with this Strike King under spin for heavier vegetation though you'll want to go with a weedless version some underspins come with a factory trailer like this crappie Buster Don't Be Afraid though to change out that trailer you may have a different trailer that better matches the bait fish that day so switch it out as needed the extra vibration and Flash of an underspin are great to get the attention of a Hungry Fish it can also be great to entice a reaction strike from a fish that is watching a school of bait fish and then keys in on your underspin jig looking like an injured minnow that's separated from the pack underspins are killer for largemouth and small mouth but also on other schooling fish like crappie and white bass my number one favorite for white bass is actually a type of inline spinner that I showed in an earlier video although underspins are amazing for those in the springtime the most common way to fish in underspin is on light tackle for schooling bass

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