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Hello All, Thanks for everyone's votes in the recent Lure contest! Thanks to you guys I was able to WIN my first ever contest with my entry for the "Deceiver-Spinner", a giant custom fly on a removable spinner wire. http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/index.php?/gallery/image/12348-deceiver-spinner/ I have been making custom spinners for about a year. I was originally inspired by the Joe's Flys product and had such excellent success, that I began my first custom designs by creating my own tied flys. This past year I began making the wire bodies and fine tuning the ability to make everything interchangeable with the removable fly system. I found the products at Lure Parts OnLine to be the most complete! Now, with my contest winnings, I have just received my latest inventory for spinner blades and lead bodies. SUPER THANKS OUT TO LPO!!! One of the best removable systems is a body (lead or brass) custom drilled out to accept the open end wire with a snug fit. I have tested these clip systems to 50lbs before only a slight elongation begins on the wire, but it never slips through the body completely. I am pleased with this new design. Here are some pictures of my 'production' run of newest designs. I have matched the best size blade to lead body weights: #1 French with 1/16 oz #3 Colorado (or two #2 for tandem) with 1/8 oz #4 Colorado with 3/16 oz #5 Colorado (or two #4 for tandem) with 1/4 oz. The largest sizes sill need tweeking but I like tandem blades, or 2 blades inline stepped in sizes....lots still to learn! My newest bucktail hook designs have been to make a musky type treble with an articulating shaft ahead of the hook to tie on all materials. Another type of fly which is shown here are to use the weighted dumbbells so the fly will actually trail behind the spinner upright, and not spin in circles like a bucktail does. This opens the door to make combos of the lightest lure body, using lots of plastic beads and a small brass body/clasp, to hold the weighted fly and have the combo be just heavy enough for a long cast, but to be retrieved slow enough without a major sink factor. I think I have stumbled onto this combo and may prove to be deadly....