Spoons and spinnerbaits: a three-part order
A spinnerbait is an assembly of three parts - a head, a blade and a skirt - and they can come from three different suppliers, so a custom order has to place all three rather than specify the finished bait.
- A spinnerbait is a head, a blade and a skirt, and the three can come from three different suppliers.
- Blade shape and blade size are separate fields; two baits with the same head can fish differently on shape alone.
- Our six-listing sample runs US$0.31 to US$6.00, the widest published range of any type in this catalogue.
A spinnerbait looks like one product and is three, and the part buyers specify least carefully is the part the fish reacts to.
Three parts, three suppliers
A spinnerbait carries a cast head, a stamped blade and a skirt. Spoons and spinners generally share the same three components: a metal blade, a wire form and a hook. None of the three has to come from the same place as the others.
That has a direct consequence for the quotation. A price for the finished bait hides which of the three is driving it, so a buyer cannot tell whether a cheaper quotation is a cheaper head or a thinner blade. The order should be placed as three lines even when one supplier holds all three.
The blade is the under-specified field
Blade shape and blade size are separate fields. Buyers tend to specify size, because size is a number, and leave shape as a phrase. Two baits can then carry the same head weight and the same blade size and behave differently, because the shape of the blade decides how it moves through the water.
Blade thickness and finish sit behind that. They decide how readily the blade starts to turn and how it behaves once it does. A delivery with a thinner blade will come up to speed at a different retrieve from the approved sample, and the two will look identical on a bench.
What the sample shows
Our spoon and spinner sample holds six listings, and its published range runs from US$0.31 to US$6.00. That is the widest spread of any type in this catalogue and it is worth reading carefully, because most of it is not a product difference.
Two of the six listings are priced per bag rather than per piece. Placed next to per-piece rows, those two create most of the spread at the top of the range. The remaining range across comparable rows is far narrower. MOQ across the six runs from 50 to 500 pieces, which is the practical floor for a custom blade order.
The six span a weed-guard spinner, a rotating-sequence spoon, a bionic spoon, a spinnerbait and a 32mm ultra-light sequin. That is five distinct products under one type name, as we record in several other types.
What the order has to state
- Blade shape. Named, not described. This is the field that decides movement.
- Blade size. Separate from shape, and not a substitute for it.
- Blade thickness or nominal gauge. The field that decides when the blade starts working.
- Head weight and material. Cast and finished as a separate step.
- Hook configuration. Quoted separately, and replaced separately on a trailer-hook model.
- Skirt specification for a spinnerbait: material, strand count and colour.
Add the packing format. Without it a per-bag quotation cannot be placed next to a per-piece one, and the comparison becomes wrong without becoming obviously wrong.
Sources 3 cited
- The six-listing sample behind every figure on this page
- How the hard lure range is filed by type
- Our rule for separating a claim from its evidence
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The same list is declared in the page structured data (schema.org citation) and in the Markdown twin.