Best Fishing Spinner Blades for DIY Lures of 2026

Sizes #1 through #3.5, gold and silver, 250 blades in one box. That spread is the entire argument for this kit. The small blades handle trout inlines, the #3 and #3.5 handle walleye crawler harnesses, and you aren't reordering the moment your plans change.

For a bench that builds a lot, this is the box we keep out. The blanks are polished brass with nickel plating, the holes come pre-punched, and the edges are smooth — which matters more than it sounds, because a burr on a stamped hole will chew through a clevis and a leader over an afternoon. Per blade, nothing else in this group comes close on cost.

The trade-off runs the other way. There's no #4 or #5 for a long musky arm, and 250 loose blades is several seasons of tying for most anglers, so plan on a compartment box and an evening of sorting before the first harness gets built. If you tie one size and one style, a smaller bag is easier to live with.

Priced alongside our top pick and aimed at a narrower job: 30 gold Colorado blades in a #3, each 1.1 by 0.9 inch. Where the SILANON box spreads across five colors, this is one color, one size, and a lot of them.

Gold #3 is the classic walleye-harness blade for good reason — warm flash in stained water, enough surface to thump on a slow pull behind a bottom bouncer, and a size that still casts on a medium spinning rod. If you tie crawler harnesses in batches of ten, buying 30 at a time in a single color makes sense in a way an assortment doesn't.

The cup is flatter than the deep Colorado profile we like best. On a slow, dragging presentation it can lope instead of spinning, so pair it with a free-turning ball-bearing swivel and don't be shy about picking up the pace — a slightly faster pull is what gets this blade flashing instead of hanging.

Where it earns its slot is the walleye box: one size and one color you can tie a dozen harnesses from without thinking. We take the SILANON kit when the water and the species change through the day, and this bag when the plan is one blade, one lake, one season.

Small is the first thing to know. These blades run well under the large label on the listing — closer to thumbnail scale than to a #3 — which makes them a panfish and small-jig blade rather than a bass spinnerbait blade. On 1/32- to 1/8-ounce heads, and on plastics and trailers worked slow, that's exactly the size that turns without overpowering the bait.

For that job we prefer them to the bigger blades here. Stainless, 40 to a pack, and versatile enough to dress jigs, trailers, and small inlines, they start spinning at a dead-slow retrieve where a full Colorado would just hang there. They're also the least expensive route in this group to a stocked crappie box.

The finish reads matte rather than mirror, so on a bright day they throw less flash than a polished blade — it matters in clear water and much less in the stained ponds these usually fish. A stamp this small also bends if a heavier fish takes it in cover, so keep them on open water and light wire.

The blade arrives already on a ball-bearing swivel, and that is the whole reason it's here. Ten silver willow #3.5 blades, 1.57 inches each, mounted and ready to clip on. When a tail blade comes off mid-morning or a trailer blade has gone dull, this is a two-minute fix instead of a tying session on the tailgate.

Willow is the fast profile: narrow, low-lift, and happiest on a burn or a steady fast retrieve. It's the shape for clear water and spinnerbaits you fish quickly, and the ball-bearing swivel lets it start spinning at lower speed while keeping the line from twisting once it does. A stiff snap swivel would waste half of what this blade can do.

What it won't do is fill a building box. Ten pieces, one size, one color, no Colorado thump — and the highest cost per blade in this group, because you're paying for the swivels and the assembly rather than the metal.

So this is our boat-box pack and not our bench stock. We keep one in the tray for lost blades and quick tail additions on a spinnerbait, and buy loose blades plus separate swivels when a whole season of lures is the project.

Sixty blades, two sizes, two colors, and the lowest price in this group — this is the cheap way to fill a small-blade drawer. The pieces split between a 2.6 cm and a 2.3 cm blade, about 1 inch and 0.9 inch, in gold and silver. Nothing else here puts that many blades in your hand for the money.

Two close sizes is more useful than it sounds. Stack the smaller blade ahead of the larger on the same shaft for the double-blade rigs trout and walleye anglers tie, or run the 2.3 cm alone on a light inline. Both are small enough for crappie and bluegill jigs and for dressing up a plain rooster tail, and having both colors in one bag means you can switch to gold when the water turns off without opening a second box.

The limit is size, and it's a real one. There's nothing here for a bass spinnerbait or a full-size harness, and the listing gives centimeters only, so convert before you plan a build around a specific blade. It's a starter box, not the box you reach for when you want big thump.

Five different blade patterns in one 40-piece box, and that's the point of it. This is the kit for an angler still working out whether a wide Colorado or a narrower blade suits a local river — you get to try the shapes before committing a season to one.

The blades are coated alloy steel with pre-punched holes, and the listing pitches them for spinnerbaits, trout spinners, inline spinners, and buzzbait toppers. That's a lot of jobs for one box, and for a builder who is still experimenting rather than restocking, the breadth is worth more than the piece count.

What it doesn't give you is a measurement. No per-blade size is published, so treat the first box as a sizing exercise: lay the blades next to one you already trust, measure length and width, and only then decide whether to order more of a pattern. That's an extra step, but 40 blades across five profiles lets you test shape before size, which is the order we prefer anyway.

If you paint, tape, or powder-coat your own blades, what you want is a pile of plain-faced Colorados and not much else. Fifty gold #2 blades on a copper blank, plated bright enough to fish straight from the box or to scuff and coat in a color nobody sells.

The cup is deeper than some inline spinners like. That means more surface and a harder thump once it's turning, but it also needs water moving across it: mounted behind a stiff snap, a deep cup can sit and stall instead of spinning. Give it a ball-bearing swivel, or turn the handle a little faster, and it comes around.

The blades also come out smaller than the listed size, so check them against the one you're replacing before tying a batch for a specific rig. Where this box earns its place is as bench stock: 50 blades cheap enough to experiment with, to paint in a custom color, and to hand to a kid learning to tie spinners. We keep ours beside the paint.