The other day, I was cruising the 'net and found this unusual spinnerbait. It's interesting, at least, and maybe more versatile than most. It looks to me like it might be more trouble in our milfoil, but wanted to ask if anybody has seen them, used them, or if the spinnerbait gurus would volunteer an opinion. It's been awhile since I had a spinnerbait rod, just got one, and thought I'd spring for a new 'bait or six. Now, if the picture just works.....

Thanks for your reply, Mark. The weed-collecting issue is fairly major, but to me, the main forseeable problem is the links doing a half-twist and lock-up. Don't expect they'd show that being a problem on TeeVee, but I could sure see that happening.  

I'm tempted to bend up some links and make a spinnerbait like this, and see if it works as I expect (fear). In fact, I made a spinnerbait with a single link, much like this, many years ago. It used a Panther Martin blade...incredible vibration, and a great helicopter, if the link pivoted as intended. I'll dig it out and see if I can fix it. But I did come to understand that we don't need a lot of vibration in our clear water.

Meanwhile, another question: Is the 'R-Bend' better than the twisted eye design? I rather prefer the "R-Bend", but I'm a plastics guy.