Seein Spots
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Several weeks
ago a friend of mine, known as Wingman, gave me a couple of odd looking spinner
baits and said, “you have to try these out, they are made local and man do they
catch fish.” As I quickly investigated
the lure I noticed right away it was an inline spinner, and my first thoughts
were twisted line and re-spooling here I come, and with those thoughts, I opted
to set the lures aside and eventually forget about them.
A few weeks
later I had the privilege of meeting Kevin Doss at the IFA Kayak Championship
in Houma, La, co-owner of Seein Spots Lures - the makers of my now forgotten
“wingman” lure, and he explained to me all the intricacies that went into the
development of their inline spinner and why quality components put together the
“Seein Spots” way produces a straight running, non-twisting inline spinner.
After explaining to Kevin where my lures were resting, in my trucks console and
not in my tackle box, I promised him I would take the lure to the water and put
it to the test.
Over the next
two weeks, I was thoroughly impressed with the results of this in-line
weedless, spinner bait. The first thing I noticed was that the retrieve
resulted in a smooth direct run back to the end of my rod, you could feel the
solid thump of the #4 Regal Deep Cup Gold Blades rolling around the shaft of
the lure. Next I noticed that the lure
didn’t appear to be turning over at all, the plastics that I installed Texas
style on the rig resulted in a straight up and down tail all the way in with
zero twist of the lure resulting in a zero twist on my 12 lbs monofilament.
Then came the real test, grass and oyster beds in the waters surrounding
Delacroix, and it turns out when the 4/0 weighted Falcon Lure Super Braid hook is
rigged Texas Style/weedless, the lure bounces over oyster shells and glides
across grass beds with the slightest resistance and the spinner thumps its way
all the way back to the boat flawlessly.
So now I have
looked at how the Seein Spots inline spinner retrieves, how it runs, how it
avoids snags on oyster beds, and how it glides over and through grass beds with
ease, but who really cares about what a lure is capable of doing if it doesn’t
catch fish. Truth be told, Wingman was
right, this lure catches fish. Over the
testing period, I landed slot reds, rat reds, 3 bull reds, several speckled
trout, a 3 foot gar, sheepshead, puppy drum and my favorite….largemouth bass, I
even jigged it for crappie in the Tchefuncte river and had some success, all on
one inline set up with alternating plastics. The Seein Spots inline set up can accompany
any plastic tailed style lure and continue to run straight and not twists, and
that alone should make it appealing for all anglers, I used Berkley Gulp curly
tails, Deadly Dudley’s, Matrix Shad, Bass Assassin, and H&H Cocohoes with them
all performing as expected. Having a
spinner that I can drop in front of a redfish and know it’s not going to get
hung up when I stop it on the bottom to jig and it’s not going to cause a weakening
twists in my line, has me keeping this lure on one my rods at all times.
Seein Spots
Lures come in 3 sizes, the Mini is a #3 blade, The Standard a #4 blade and the
Magnum a #5 blade. The Mini and the Standard come with a 4/0 hook and the
Magnum with a 5/0 hook. I tested the standard set up as I am a fan of the
forever proven #4 blade, and if you’re wondering about cost, well hang on to
your hats, because every option they sell is under $6.00, and in the fishing
world of lures today, that’s an impressive price for the performance you are
going to get. I have talked with anglers and guides from Texas to Florida that
have had the same results that I achieved with this lure, I’m confident that
given the chance you will see, this ain’t your grandpaws inline spinner.
Seein Spots Lures is a
local company out of Houma, Louisiana, owned by John Duplantis and Kevin
Doss. You can contact them at
