Part 2

The Mack’s Lure Super Series Wedding Ring is living up to its name.

In my last column I told how anglers fishing Lake Havasu have found that Super Series Wedding Rings are indeed a super lure for the lake’s striped bass.

The man I talked about in my previous column was Jerry Sanford, of Havasu City, Arizona.  Sanford, you’ll recall, told me how a friend named Joe Miler had introduced him to these lures.  Miler had been using the Super Series Wedding Ring at Havasu for some time.

I thought it would be good to get details on exactly how Miler uses his Super Series Rings.  He shared those details with me and it pleases me to share them with you.

These stripers came out of Lake Mead, Nevada.  Stripers like this at Arizona's Lake Havasu have been clobbering Mack's Lure Super Series Wedding Ring spinners.

“I’ve tried several different set ups,” Miler says.  “Basically I use 50-pound Power Pro braid as my main line.  Sometimes I use a Mack’s Lure Hot Wings right beneath my sinker.  I attach the leader that comes with the Wedding Ring to the Hot Wings.  That way I have the flash of the Hot Wings out in front of my Wedding Ring.  Often this set up works really well.”

You don’t have to talk to Joe Miler long before you’ll find out exactly how he feels about the Super Series spinners.  “It amazes me,” he says.  “When I go out with somebody who isn’t using a Wedding Ring
I usually wind up catching five or six fish to their one.”

If you're heading out to troll for stripers, give them a look at one or another of these Super Series Wedding Ring spinners.  They have been catching a bunch of fish lately at Lake Havasu in Arizona.

If that sounds too good to be true, remember what Jerry Sanford told me about the time he went out with Miler.  I told about it in my previous column.  “Joe caught 10 fish to my one with his Super Series spinner,” was Sanford’s comment.

Miler favors a piece of anchovy for use on the hook of the Super Series, but doesn’t limit himself to just that one bait.  He sometimes switches to nightcrawlers.  Now and then he winds up catching both Lake Havasu’s largemouth and smallmouth bass on this same lure.

“As I’ve said,” he says, “the lure just continues to amaze me.  I knew it would catch stripers because I’ve gone out and caught as many as 30 fish on it in a couple of hours.  But I didn’t expect it to catch bass as well.  I’m learning more about it all the time.”

Miler doesn’t employ a snubber as some anglers do on the set ups they use for trolling.  “I don’t like to put any more stuff on my line than I have to,” he says.  “Instead of using a snubber, I use a very light drag setting on my reel.”

This striper expert also figures he catches larger than average fish.  One of the ways he does this is by getting his spinner down where larger fish are holding.  He says he often finds Havasu Lake stripers congregated about 25-feet down.

One thing Miler says he’d like to see Mack’s Lure do is come out with a slightly larger version of the Super Series.  “I say that,” he says, “because historically you’re going to take larger fish on a larger lure.”

I suggested that he contact the folks at Mack’s Lure in this regard.  I know from personal experience that Bob Schmidt and his capable crew up there in the Evergreen State always pay close attention to customer comments.

Joe Miler is obviously a thoughtful and dedicated angler.  “I’m always trying new techniques,” he says, “and I’m learning new things as I do.”  Anglers like Jerry Sanford, the man I wrote about in my previous column, will testify that this is true.  As I’ve noted, Miler introduced Sanford to the Super Series.

I’ll bet those Lake Havasu stripers wish Miler would just keep quiet.  Why?  Because those Mack’s Lure Super Series Wedding Rings have been causing them nothing but grief now for months!

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