Spoons with snap weights ?

You could run a spoon off a tadpole off a board,but I think that jets have a rattle and dipsy create a disturbance in front of the spoon to give it a noise in the water if this makes sense, but I would try it I know guys up on Saginaw bay use spoons on lead core so it should work with an in-line weight


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You can try the 4' per ounce at 100' back at 1.5 mph...ex; 4oz. = 16' down in the water column...there are other factor's involved like line dia. ... water current...and lure resistance...you can give it a try and adjust for yourself and keep a log on your trials...a lot of harness pullers do similar programs...just remember that it's length from the weight to the rod tip not from the lure to the rod tip...big difference...good luck

Download the precision Trolling app for 1oz and 2oz inline weights. Will be dead on when pulling spoons bc there’s no (very little) resistance from the spoons.


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I use Big Jon Deep R Diver disks and 6-foot leaders. I like them better than Jets

I like your thinking about using weights for spoons. I never actually gave that a thought. I may have to try it. We recently had very good success running trutrip 40s with spoons off boards up at the islands.

If you have big boards using TT40 with your spoons is the best setup to catch.i think this tread was talking about using a weight with inline boards.I have not tried using our tadpoles with spoons off our inline yet but also would be interested to see how well they catch.We do often run out spoon harnesses off our dipsey and do very well with them.Think the turbulence from dipseys and TT40s is what attracts the fish.

I have run 1 oz bullet weights (think bass fishing) a lot of times on Lake Michigan for steelhead with spoons.

I use a speedo bead on the line to stop the weight 6-7' before the spoon

deadly setup

I have run #2 tadpoles and spoons and caught fish behind inline boards .

Those bigger Jets and Tru trips just pull hard .

If your running big boards stick with jets of TT but you can absolutely run spoons behind weights or tadpoles .
Now if that have a similar catch rate is the question.
I think spoons behind tadpoles is a Betts option than inline weights due to how tadpoles run in a searching motion .

I think it would be just like a harness, but just like everything else it’s up to what the fish want that day.
a spoon harness will have slightly more action than a straight harness. A tadpole will add more action to a spoon or harness.
tadpole,TT, dipsey, ect. Will keep you deeper at higher speed as the water warms.

Tried this in the past
It puts the spoon in a up and down motion due to how the waves are.
Works later in the year when the water is hotter.