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July 2019
I've got to disclose right here that I've known the folks at Humdinger
for many years. They used to help me by supplying baits for an on-air
prize giveaway I did for many years on the show. Now they've expanded
their line-up to include these "Spinner-Cranks" and I'm a big fan. These
are almost finesse cranks, having a spinning blade where the rear
treble usually hangs. I say finesse because these seem to work
especially well when a regular crankbait doesn't. It's almost as if
the spinner attracts the attention of the fish more than the crank
itself. Whatever the reason, these baits will flat catch fish! In
addition, many of the Humdinger baits are UV coated to help them glow in
certain light conditions. If you're looking for a bait for pressured
bass, clear water fishing or any conditions where the fish seem a little
skittish, try a Humdinger Spinner CRANK!
August 2018
SPINNER CRANK RESULTS
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June 2018
Humbugs been catching em for fourteen years!
Two at a time makes for fast limits.
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Yellow Jackets working on Ray Roberts!
Leroy,
Yella Jackets did great at Ray Roberts. Caught sand bass limit 4 straight days. Also
caught black bass and a great cat.
Thanks, great product.
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JUNE 2017
Made the second trip out in my new kayak. Had my limit before 7:30!
All on the most fish catching lure I've ever thrown, Humdinger!
T.G.
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Regino caught these Walleye on this crank bait that I used ultraviolet air brush paint on.
Good catch!
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Saltwater Fish love Humdingers!
"Hey man I've been using your lures since I 1st got introduced to them last summer. I've caught well over a 100 whites and a few 5+ pound bass and even a big cat. I work out at the docks on e m [Eagle Mountain Lake] and would like to invite u to come fish with me on us. Here are a few pics of fish from this weekend."
Shorty82
April 2014
Bryon Nolan and friends catching hybrids in the cold with the the new Dinger Blades! December 28th, 2013
We had an excellent day fishing with your baits last week. My customers had their limit of 50 big white bass with very fast action using Humdingers. Since I have been using your baits I find myself tying one on before any other bait. It has become our bait of choice on my boat for white bass. When I take people white bass fishing they know the Humdinger name when they get off my boat. I look forward to continued success using your baits... Call anytime
Thanks,
Chuck Rollins
Owner/Guide
903-288-5798
Went fishing this morning and boated around 200
fish! All caught on the Hum bug! Cleaned 125 and the guys were
still bringing them in as I cleaned fish. This new lure works
good slabbing, and on a slow retrieve through schooling sandies.
EM (Eagle Mountain Lake, Azle, TX) was the lake and we caught them as deep as 24 ft and as
shallow as 8 ft. Thanks again Humdinger for two great lures! -
Brother Terry (TFF)
Just thought I'd let you
know how the Humdinger is doing in Iowa. I spent the last 22
years in Texas and the Humdinger was the best White Bass/Hybrid
lure I have tried to date. I just moved back to Iowa (my home
state) and thought I would see what the fishing was like here
in Iowa City since it's been so long. I went down below the dam
and noticed people were catching white bass on jigs. Well since
the dam is very close to where I live I can fish there every
morning for one hour before work (doesn't get much better for
me). So, on a Friday I tried the white jigs everyone else was
using and caught 6 fish. I guess not bad for an hour. The following Monday I thought I'd try again but it seemed slow
for the first 40 minutes (3 fish) so I changed to the white 3/8
oz Humdinger. Caught 21 whites in the next 20 minutes. Awesome
right? It only gets better for me.
I have gone fishing 4 days this week for a total of 4 hours and here are the white bass numbers for the humdinger on each day:
I have gone fishing 4 days this week for a total of 4 hours and here are the white bass numbers for the humdinger on each day:
Monday 21
Tuesday 23
Thursday 34 Also one 10lb Buffalo
Friday 60 I had one guy offer to buy my lure on Friday morning :))
Tuesday 23
Thursday 34 Also one 10lb Buffalo
Friday 60 I had one guy offer to buy my lure on Friday morning :))
Anyway, I ordered a few more today since I have a feeling my stock will slowly dwindle. I will tell as many people about your product as I can.....but maybe not exactly right away. I'd like to catch a few myself before I have to give the secret away :))
Thanks for the great lure,
Gary Reittinger
I caught it [Catfish] on your 3/8 oz pearl white with glitter,
slow rolling it in about 23' of water while fishing for crappie. I was using a
5'6" crappie pole and it took about 15 minutes to bring it to the surface.
Don't know what the fish weighed, as the 50# scale bottomed out. Thanks for
letting me use your jigs. I've now caught black bass, sandbass and catfish on
the Humdinger............all while crappie fishing. I know that eventually I
will start to catch crappie.
Guy Skinner
The blade configuration is great.
I can feel it spinning while dropping it down! I used a Candy Chartreuse
in the 1/2 oz. My first trip out I caught 30 sandies on that lure. After that
trip I ordered 12 more in the larger size and various colors. The next trip out
the bite was slow on the Chartreuse and the Candy Chartreuse and I ended up
catching them on Pearl White. If you use this bait and they don't bite it, they
either aren't there or they want another color!
T- Gilstrap
Humdinger
Hung Up? Bob C has the Answer!
Some have said they have had a problem gettin the HD loose from
a bottom hangup. I have had great success in getting them loose
by moving the boat so that I'm right over the hangup. Then,
keeping the line slackless, popping the rod tip up and down. If
the lure is hung on a limb or branch or in a rock. the lure
seems to just pop loose more times than not.
I bounce the HD along the bottom quite a bit and get hungup pretty often, but I'd bet I've lost only two or three HD's in the last 18 or so months....and I use the HD most of the time, fishing at least once a week! I don't lose them, my fishing buddies just "borrow" them and forget to give them back!
What a wonderful lure....for many species...especially sandies, stripers, and hybrids!
I bounce the HD along the bottom quite a bit and get hungup pretty often, but I'd bet I've lost only two or three HD's in the last 18 or so months....and I use the HD most of the time, fishing at least once a week! I don't lose them, my fishing buddies just "borrow" them and forget to give them back!
What a wonderful lure....for many species...especially sandies, stripers, and hybrids!
Tip from Bob C as posted
at the
Texas Fishing Forum
The Hum-Jig Trolling Combo
is Born
I had the good fortune to meet Howell Dodd (of
HD Guide Service)
this spring and have hired him quite a few times since then. In that time he
has become a great friend and my sand bass mentor. (More like a drug dealer
encouraging my white bass addiction) The first time I went out with Howell
he showed me how to Hell-Pet even though it was not the best time time of the
year to do it. Slabbing, cast and retrieve and chasing birds was the order of
the day but I had read about it and wanted to learn so like a great guide he
showed me how to do it purely for educational purposes. Clearly it is a great and well proven technique but as the owner of a small jon boat the idea of trying to handle those rods with that hellbender pulling like hell (pun not intended) and running my boat alone seemed like it would be a real pain in the butt. I also noticed that guides kept rods permanently rigged for Hell-Pet and this might be fine for them but unlike professional guides I don't have a garage full of rods each rigged for a specific purpose. So I decided for the time being why worry go slab and you will do fine. That worked for a while but summer came and when that happened the fish suspended. So I considered the options.
Option One - Go to Academy, by all the stuff to rig up Hell - Pet and try it. Further do so knowing that I would have a hell of a time running this in my tiny boat when I fish 90% of the time alone.
Option Two - Give up Sand Bass till early fall or only fish them at the tail end of the day (clearly this was not an option for a new addict)
Option Three - Find a way to mimic the hell pet technique in the key ways that made it work. To me these were the following:
- It put the lure at a consistent depth that was
controlled by how much line one let out and could be adjusted to a degree
simply by raising or lowering the rod tip.
- Used a shiny lure that was small enough to attract the
strike of a suspended sandie that was not really on the feed.
Now when I was slabbing I decided to come up with a leader that used snap swivels so I could change out slab and jig sizes and colors quickly. When I wanted to slab, I attached a jig to the upper snap and a slab to the lower one. I also used a snap swivel on the main line so I could remove the entire leader and change to a more conventional rig in just seconds. I decided that this leader could form the basis of my new trolling technique.
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| Here is a picture of the
leader I use, now the cool part is I can tie
up a few leaders like this and
just snap them on quickly.
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| The newly named Hum-Jig trolling rig. |
The results of my first attempt were impressive. I trolled for about 90 minutes with the rig pictured above and in that time I boated and boxed 12 keeper sand bass in the 11-13 inch range (nice fish for Joe Pool) and released another 18 or so that were dinks or just barely legal. Had I trolled for say 2 1/2 hours and kept all legal fish a limit would have certainly been the result. I would also say that by letting the fist hooked fish drag for about 10 or so seconds before reeling him in, yielded a double about every third catch. It also appeared on singles that 90% of the time the first fish hit the humdinger.
