spinners w/out weight

[yamahadude]

Just out of curiosity. How deep does a spinner go w/no weight and 100 back. I'm guessing at least 2 ft...maybe three. How about with small 1/16 oz split shot? Thanks!

[wheels]

I think it's gonna depend drastically on speed.

"Friends don't let friends fish for trout!"

[yamahadude]

Was thinking 1.5 mph

[Pooch]

I'd think it might just "plane out". We used to pull spinners over the top of weed beds and had to put a few split shot above them to get them stay just under the surface. I don't remember that being a very success filled way of catching walleye. Small bullet weights worked at getting the spinner to run a few feet down. Line size made a big difference also.

Pooch

[Kevin B]

Barely under the surface. I used to cast tiny willow leaf spinners with only a snelled #6 hook attached with a minnow for crappies. On free line, didn't drop more than 6 inches per second. Of course, the minnow pulled the rig around in the treetops and crappie whacked em.
June Bug spinners with same setup for walleyes will drop a little faster with a #4 or 5 Colorado blade. Used to take a good 15 seconds on Pymatuning before it hit bottom in 10 ft of water. Gotta get somehwere shallow, somehwere where ther is a sandy bottom to avoid snaggging, and conduct some tests. Line size, spinner weight, wind, speed, all gonna effect it.

[GBS]

With a small split shot, and running about .9 mph, they are approx. 4-5 ft down. That's the preferred way to fish on my annual spring trip to the northern Minnesota border waters. That weight and speed, we are just ticking the weed tops - or hanging up on a rock - at that depth. Method accounted for one trip of over 200 walleye for 3 guys in 4 days. Of course, all "too big" for the slot, and released....

[Lundy]

what size split shot are you using ?

[GBS]

Nothing sized in my box - they are about 1/8th" in diameter, or a tad smaller. No more that 1/16oz, and probably closer to 1/32.