Spoons for pike 10 best in autumn: the most catchy autumn spoons and working spinners with photos

In the last 10-15 years, spinning anglers have gradually changed their preferences in choosing bait for catching predatory fish. During the “warm” season, wobblers and silicone jig baits are more popular among most colleagues than oscillating and rotating spoons.

But in the fall, everything changes (especially late in October-November) and the “hardware” naturally comes to the fore, spinners are especially popular and in demand when catching autumn pike - it is with the cooling of the air and water that the catfish begins to actively hunt and gain fat before the freeze-up.

Unforgettable oscillating and rotating spoons in the cold season in open water will give odds to the coolest wobblers and the now fashionable silicone. We’ll figure out what to look for when choosing a spinner for catching pike in the fall (how to choose the size, color, shape, etc.), and also offer our TOP 10 working spinners and catchy spinners for the autumn predator.

Pike is perhaps the main autumn trophy, which can be caught with medium and large spoons, as well as heavy spinners in the mid-latitudes of Russia and the CIS countries.

What is it like, an autumn catching lure for pike - general parameters for choosing a spinner and spoon

You need to understand that autumn is a long time, and over the course of 90 calendar days, weather conditions change dramatically, which means the habits of the predator change, its preferences in parking places and when choosing a spinner.

This is interesting! TOP 10 catchy spinners and spoons for pike, regardless of the season.

What kind of lures are needed for the toothed striped fish during the late summer-autumn season in September?

In early autumn in September, while the water has not yet completely cooled down, pike still continue to hunt on river stretches and on riverbeds and bank edges, sometimes even going aground in pursuit of whitefish fry. At this time, small and medium-sized spoons are still relevant, along with other types of baits, both spoons and spinners, which worked in the summer.

There are several requirements for working lures:

Sufficient casting distance . This is especially true if fishing is done from the shore.
Have a lazy low-frequency sweeping game.
In relation to turntables - start on the slowest wiring .
Size matters . Pike prefers medium-sized and large-sized spoons, this is especially true in late autumn in November and early December before freeze-up. Lures from 5-7 cm up to 12-14 cm are just right.
Keep the current, do not fall over or go into a tailspin . This is especially important when using spinners.
For fishing in strong places, you need spinners with some kind of protection against snagging .
to mimic the behavior of a fry as reliably as possible .

What lure does pike use in late autumn in October and November?

During this period of the season, the air and water cool down, and the pike gradually slides into the deepest areas of the reservoir - into holes, on channel and coastal edges, areas of reservoirs where there are areas with pronounced depths.

At this time, it is appropriate to use heavier and more massive oscillators, as well as front-loaded turntables aimed at depths of 4 meters and more.

The size for pike spoons in the late autumn season is from 2 inches and above, up to 5. For spinners, sizes 3-5 according to the Meps classification.

Numbering of rotating spoons and their weight - for autumn pike from 3 and above

Note! This review is focused specifically on the review and rating of catchable lures for autumn pike. You can learn about the specifics of using “iron” when fishing for catfish and striped fish in the autumn at this link.

Autumn is the time to shake the vibrators out of the box

Color question

In early autumn the water is cloudy and various provocative acidic and fluorescent colors are often effective. In late autumn, the water becomes clear and standard colors show themselves well - matte and shiny silver, brass, copper and their combinations.

Mepps Aglia3 in acid green color will be good in quiet pools and pits with low currents

Oscillating spoon equipment

To make the bait more attractive to predators and more suitable for fishing in difficult conditions, it should be slightly modified. The first and simplest thing is to attach a bunch of bright red threads to the tee of the vibrator. It is believed that red color, or any other bright color, is a strong irritant for pike. True, more often a tee with a red edge is used on “spinners”, but such a modernization is also of interest for oscillating spinners for pike fishing.

Catching pike with a spoon is most often carried out at shallow depths, and a slowly gliding spoon is much more attractive to the predator.

The next step is to reduce the mass of the oscillating spoon, since fishing is carried out at shallow depths and a slowly gliding bait is more attractive to a predator.

Read! Pike fishing in April

You can significantly modify the game of the oscillating spoon by installing a smaller hook and made of thinner wire. You can also change the winding rings to lighter ones - on most “oscillators” the rings are very large. These modifications give the opposite effect to what is obtained when replacing a conventional tee with a tee with an “edge”. In this case, the working amplitude of the spinner's oscillations increases. It is useful to try both options, because it is difficult to say in advance which one will be more attractive to pike.

Do you need a tee?

A more radical way to modernize an oscillating spoon involves replacing the tee with an offset or double hook with a silicone bait. It would seem that there is nothing complicated: I changed it, hung up the rubber, the spinner became more passable, the number of hooks decreased - everything is great. But this is where many problems arose, the most important of which was the sudden change in the game. Often (in about every second or third case) the spinner either goes into a tailspin or simply turns off from the game.

To avoid such problems, you need to know a few rules. The first and most important thing is the size of the offset hook, the total length of which should be about one and a half, or even two times less than the size of the spoon itself. The same applies to the size of the silicone bait - the performance of the spinner depends no less on this.

The play of an oscillating spoon in a design with an offset hook and “rubber” should be snake-like, that is, describe a sinusoid in the water. Having achieved such a game, we get the most catchable bait. Pike really like this kind of spinner action, especially in the fall.

As for the color of “rubber,” shades of green or brown work best; purple often helps out. But there are exceptions when bright acidic colors (lemon, orange, red) work just as well.

Read! Pike habitats

You can connect the body of the spinner to the hook not with one winding ring, but with a sequence of two or three, thereby achieving a greater degree of freedom for the entire structure. This option often becomes successful.

The most catchy spinners for pike in autumn

In the last 10-15 years, there has been another surge in the popularity of rotating and especially oscillating spinners, both ultralight and aimed at trophy predators. In this regard, the market is literally inundated with various spinners, from the cheapest Chinese ones to very expensive Japanese and European ones, and all this variety is served with a sauce of craft handmade spinners and spinners.

Therefore, choosing the most catchy spinners (in this case for catching pike in the autumn) is very difficult, this is always a subjective rating and not always what works for one spinner will work for another. Our, albeit subjective, rating, as usual, is based on many years of personal experience (the author has been catching pike on spoons since he was 5 years old and has been quite successful for exactly 30 years), reviews and advice from colleagues offline and online, as well as a skeptical but reasonable analysis of specialized literature and websites. It is also worth noting that the choice of spinner is always dictated by fishing conditions (type of reservoir, current strength, depth, lighting), weather and predator activity.

So, the TOP 10 best working spoons, successfully used in most cases for autumn pike:

Mepps Syclops 2 and 3 numbers. A powerful spoon bait that has shown itself especially well in lakes, oxbow lakes, reservoirs and bays for large autumn pike (although the conventional “kiloshka” flies in quite often). A very persistent, elegant and wide-playing spinner. It works on the slowest, lazy retrieve with pauses during which it crumbles beautifully, like a wounded fry. The downside is that it sails when casting, is not suitable for medium and strong currents, and the price tag is a little high.
Rapala Minnow Spoon. 9.15, 22 grams. A non-hooking spoon for pike standing and hunting in strong places. A very interesting game, thanks to its non-trivial form. We recommend using Minnow Spoon as a provocateur when other spinners are silent, using various types of stop-and-go animation, wave-like.
Atom in the weight range of 15-30 grams. A famous fighter, known and successfully used by our grandfathers and fathers. It does not lose popularity even now, and is especially good in the fall. Among the numerous manufacturers producing this vibrator, we recommend the old Soviet ones, as well as Senezh, Spinex, Bubnov. It has a narrowed nose, so it holds the current well and works on the slowest retrieves with or without pauses. Can be recommended to beginners - Atom is cheap, very easy to use and continues to catch pike. There are also non-locking Atoms for snags.
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DAM Effzett Standart Spoon 16-45 grams. Large spoons for trophy pike and catfish that stick to great depths and water areas are just the thing. For fishing from shore, boat and trolling. Interesting colors and design of scales. A little expensive, but if you have the opportunity and need for such serious scales, it’s worth purchasing.
Blue Fox Esox. A wide vibrator with sweeping play on a classic uniform pattern to the liking of the predator. A large number of color solutions for cloudy and clear weather, as well as for varying water turbidity.
Kuusamo Professor entire range from 10 grams and above. Finnish spoon bait, catchy and... expensive. But she's worth it. Numerous colors, as well as an exclusive version with a bead. During pauses, he pours out interesting moves and plays to the sides. The favorite animation option is a slow transition with pauses during which the Professor falls to the bottom and then explodes with a cloud of turbidity. It is at these moments that the grip often follows. The downside is that it doesn’t fly very well (it’s better to make throws in the wind), and, of course, the price tag.
Kuusamo Rasanen from 10 grams and above. Another representative of Kuusamo. A wide spoon, it does not go deep quickly, and during pauses it falls slowly with turns and pirouettes. We recommend it for early autumn pike standing in pits, as well as in shallow oxbow lakes/lakes with depths of 1-3 meters.
Pontoon-21 Sampliora models from 14 to 39 grams. A real pike delicacy. Voluminous, heavy, noticeable. From the point of view of both the fisherman and the predator, a large number of interesting solutions have been implemented in the spinner (more about them on the manufacturer’s website), which catches not only pike, but also the spinner).
Blue Fox Matrixx Spoon from 15 to 36 grams. A variant of a fast and heavy bait for autumn pike for medium and fast currents.
Acme Little Cleo 19, 21, 35 grams. The most famous shaker with a wide profile. Slow retrieve, on the upstream or across the stream.

This rating considers spinners from different price categories (among others, very expensive baits), so that every spinning angler has a choice for different possibilities. Let’s briefly touch on the topic of manufacturers who, despite their low budget costs, make spinners of decent quality. Some are easier to get for readers from Ukraine, some for fishermen from the Russian Federation and other CIS countries. So, we recommend paying attention to spinners (especially oscillating ones) from such manufacturers as Rublex, Spinnex, Kosadaka, Blue Fox, Mepps, as well as various heavy Soviet Storleks, Atoms, Senezhi, Lozhki, etc.

The best vibrations for autumn:

Fishing with spoons in autumn

Autumn is rightfully considered perhaps the best time for catching pike with a spoon. In the fall, the grass settles, which made it so difficult to catch in the summer, the duckweed floating on the surface of the water becomes less and less, or even disappears altogether, and open spaces for the spinning angler that were closed throughout the summer season.

Why is it good to catch pike with oscillating spoons in the fall? There are many different explanations. On many small ponds, rivers, various “toad fields” and polders in the fall, as freeze-up approaches, frogs become the main prey for pike. It is in the autumn that amphibians gradually move from their summer habitats to those areas of reservoirs where they soon fall into suspended animation. The oscillating spoon is quite close in its acoustics to this pike food object, and a properly equipped “oscillator” significantly outperforms any other bait.

Which spinners to choose for autumn pike?

The best spinners for pike in the fall (tested in practice, supported by theory):

Mepps Aglia Long, numbers 3-5 - an unforgettable classic among spinners from famous Frenchmen. Beginning pike fishermen should start with this particular spoon - Aglia Long is a universal tool that works in any conditions and in any hands (well, almost...). Effective on bodies of water without current and on rivers. Accepts different speeds of wiring without getting into a tailspin or being squeezed out to the surface. Working horizon 1-3 meters. For a passive pike, the pattern is as slow as possible, on the verge of petal failure with or without pauses. The active one has more aggressive driving with accelerations and pauses. In the current on pits and edges, it is good to conduct across the stream for demolition. A wide range of colors will allow you to choose Long for any conditions. Numbers 3-5 are a very tasty piece of iron for autumn pike. It flies relatively tolerably, but if you need the longest cast, we recommend the next option on the list...
Mepps Aglia Long heavy, numbers 2-4. The heavy “sister” of Long, suitable for fishing holes and edges with depths of 2-6 meters. Holds the jet well and the specified wiring horizon. A very powerful spinner, but it requires appropriate gear with a power reserve for the test.
Mepps Lusox 3 and 4 numbers. Front-loaded rotating spoon from the same French. In our opinion, the best in its class. The best option for fishing deep holes, whirlpools, channel edges, and bays. The heads, like the “anchors,” are replaceable. Which gives a wide field for using Lusox. With heavy heads, the spoon can be used in a jig version - a step along the bottom, wavy near the bottom and in the water column, stop-and-go. With light and medium weights and without loading, you can fish the upper and middle layers of the water area. If necessary, you can replace standard furred tees with anchors with an anti-snag system.
Mepps Aglia numbers 3-7, the size is selected depending on the conditions. A very persistent spinner with a sweeping, high-amplitude action even at the lowest fishing speed. It is unlikely to be suitable for strong and medium currents. But you can successfully fish stagnant bodies of water or areas of rivers with a slow flow with such spoons. Along with the standard set of colors there is series Phosphorus, Fluo, Chartreuse and others who have shown themselves to be of high quality in recent years.
Mepps Black Fury 5, 14 grams. An interesting option, in our opinion, in most cases better than the standard Comet from the same Mepps. Many different colors to suit different weather conditions, the mood of the predator and the transparency of the water.
Blue Fox Vibrax 5, 6. Large numbers of famous Blue Foxes can tempt a trophy specimen over a wide area of water and at large and medium depths. The shape of the petal is similar to Comet from Mepps. But unlike the Comet, they are equipped with a rattle, which can be both a plus and a minus, depending on the mood of the predator.
Mepps tandem pike — one of the best turntables in the tandem form factor. The two-lobe design creates powerful vibrations underwater along with maximum visual stimulation, which provokes the pike to bite. The entire design is clearly calibrated and the rotation of the petals does not fail at a variety of fishing speeds, which is very important when fishing in the current. If necessary, it can be weighted with removable weight heads for fishing at great depths. In this version, we get a front-loaded rotating tandem for pike fishing. Collects fish in large areas, thanks to the mentioned stimuli - visual, verbal and noise. Wiring at minimum speed in a uniform mode is the best option for a passive, sleepy November pike.
DAM Effzett Standard Spinner numbers 3-5. Cool turntable at a reasonable price. Good in slow water at depths of 1-4 meters. It starts very well and does not fail at any driving speed.
Myran Mira 15 and 20 grams, this weight is optimal, speaking in the context of autumn pike. A worthy response from the Swedes to the French from Mepps. Classic colors: brass, copper, silver, gold. Classic form for Murans. And the same catchability. It is equipped with a front sight that slightly floats the spinner on the fly, so we recommend using it at depths of 1-3 meters. Mepps and Pantun 21 are a little more expensive, but it’s worth having a couple of pieces in the box.
Myran Toni 12, 18 grams. Rotating spoon with a heavy core. Works on pike and large deep-water perch.

Fishing for pike on spinners in early autumn:

To summarize, we note that not only and not so much the choice of a working spoon is important, but also the ability to correctly select it for fishing conditions, and then present it to a predator. Only by gaining experience will the spinner be able to put all the letters of the alphabet into a beautiful autumn poem on a given topic.