High Speed Spinner Blades

[fishon-son]

never heard of them....I like to buzz  a spinner bait across the top just under to give it the wake look..have takin a lot of bass this way..but some times the bait will walk to the side and not run true...then the next cast it runs great....was looking at a yamamoto spinnerbait and it says on the package high speed blades.????  is this just sales talk or the real deal....do I need high speed blades????

[smalljaw]

You don't need high speed blades, all you need to do is downsize. High speed blades are probably something like Strike King uses on their burner spinnerbait and they are made thinner in thickness and width. When I make my own High speed spinnerbaits I down size the blades but I also began using the serrated edge blades from Worth, when they came out I thought they were just a gimmick but I got some to try and they are awesome for making a burner spinnerbait. The serrated blade doesn't have as much resistance out to the edge of the blade like a normal willow and it causes it to spin in a really tight arc so it spins faster which makes a lot of flash and has less drag coming through the water. Another thing I do is I make my wire forms with a steeper angle on the blade arm, again it keeps the blade lower and reduces drag so if you have a bait you want to run fast and still stay true, down size the blades 1 full size and bend the blade arm back a little and your bait will run a lot better.

[dchance]

Another thing to look at is how the wire is bent. A straight arm will roll at high speeds. A blade arm with a bend in it will not have the same tendency to roll.

[smalljaw]

If you are talking about the blade arm being bent as in the S.O.B. lures mini me, that isn't why the blade arm is bent and it has very little to do with the bait rolling at high speed. Rolling at high speed is all about torque and it comes from over size blades and most off the shelf baits have been made that way. It is only in the last 6 or 7 years that companies have started making baits for burning like the Strike King Burner spinnerbait, it has a special blade. The blade is thin in both thickness and width, that allows it to spin faster in a tighter arc so as to not create too much torque. What happens is the head of the bait acts as a keel or counter weight and when the torque overtakes the weight the bait it will become unstable and roll to the side and sometimes in a complete circle. The bend in a blade arm has almost nothing to do with keeping the bait from rolling, if it has large blades it will roll with a bend in the arm too. What the bend does do it is helps in creating less drag while still maintaining good vibration, it is basically keeping all the torque, created by the blades spinning, in a small area the same way shortening the distance between the blades makes more vibration by having both blades spinning on a smaller section of the wire. I'm not a physics major but when I make a tandem spinnerbait with a large space between blade and a small space between the blades, I can feel the difference in vibration in the rod and that tells me it is a significant amount. So a bent blade arm only helps by  reducing drag but it isn't done to keep a bait from rolling as I've tried to see if that did anything to correct the problem and the only thing I've ever found that works is to use a smaller blade.