>>351170My apologies to the regulars in these threads because I feel like a broken record saying again but "Jig Spinners!" Fuckin' love'em. The common, ready-made option is the Johnson Beetle Spin. Complete spinners (wire form, swivel, split ring and blade) used to be a common item in tackle shops but I haven't seem them in a Gander Mountain or Bass Pro in years (don't have a Cabela's nearby) and even the little mom & pop shops around here don't have them these days. You can sometimes find replacement blades for extortionate prices but never the rest of the equation.
I lost the links I wanted to use (there are plenty of sites to choose from) but I'm actually getting ready to start assembling my own. It's strikingly cheaper to just bulk order the blades, swivels, split rings and wire-forms from various online retailers. You can save even more money making your own wire-bending jig and making the wire forms yourself but that depends on how DIY you want to get about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBw0LyLdQZ8(One thing I'll note about this guy's video is I'm not fond of his clasp to hold the jig head. Compare it to a Beetle Spin and you'll see his is missing an extra U-bend that I think makes a better safety pin-like clasp)
Anyway you get your jig spinners, pop on an appropriately-sized jig head and put soft plastic on that. I've been using Strike King Mr. Crappie plastics with small-to-medium forms/blades to great success lately. With larger forms/blades/jig heads I'll pair up with 5-inch single-tail grubs (I'm pretty loyal to Gary Yamamoto's) You can doctor them even further if you want. Maybe don't put any plastic lure on the jig head at all. Wrap it with some yarn, thread, a feather you found on the ground, shit from a local craft store... do it up like you're tying a fly. Or use a really small rubber band and some silicone skirt material like what's used on store-bought spinnerbaits and trail a small plastic behind that.
