![]() View the full range of spinners available at Sea Angling Shop by clicking here. Spinners for mackerel are relatively cheap, with 1oz spinners costing around £1.50 – £2.50 each, with heavier spinners, and the more realistic ones designed for catch bass, being more expensive. While this type of spinner is still available most spinners used today are made of a single section that does not revolve, although some such as wedges are designed to wobble from side to side as they are reeled in which mimics an injured fish. ![]() Spinners are so-called because many traditional designs incorporated rotating blades which revolved around a central section as the spinner was drawn through the water. From left to right: a traditional mackerel spinner which rotates as it is reeled in, a modern single-piece minnow-style spinner and a wedge-style spinner, based on the original Dexter wedge. Read our full article on the different types of spinners available to UK anglers by clicking here. Spinners such as Dexter wedges, Toby spinners and Mepps spinners soon became established as reliable fish-catching lures by the early to mid-twentieth century, and all of these designs are still popular and widely used today. While anglers have crafted lures to catch fish for many centuries it was not until the late 1800s that spinners began to be commercially produced on a mass scale in the USA and Britain. Fishing with spinners goes hand in hand with light tackle, and hooking a pollock, coalfish or bass on light gear is one of the most exciting types of fishing, and even a single mackerel can give great sport if caught on the right tackle. The need for relatively deep water means that piers, jetties and rock marks are the places where spinning is most effective, although there are a number of steep shingle beaches where it is perfectly possible to catch fish on a spinner or other type of lure. Spinning is an extremely popular type of fishing around the whole of the UK and many anglers find this type of fishing exciting as they are constantly active, casting and retrieving, knowing a fish could take the spinner at any moment. ![]() Spinning is a type of fishing where a solid metal lure (the spinner) is drawn through the water in order to tempt a predatory fish into attacking and becoming hooked. Even small fish such as mackerel put up a good fight when caught on light spinning gear.
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