The idea has been floating around for a decade or more. There are even one or two buzzbaits on the market that attach small, swivel-mounted spinner blades behind the buzz prop. Secret Weapon has taken the design to a new level of versatility and performance. In our buzzbaits, you'll find the same quality components as in Secret Weapon's spinnerbaits.... Premium silicone skirts that still look new after repeated outings. Mustad Ultra-point, long-shank, wide-gap hooks are the sharpest and toughest they could find.

The beautifully detailed, rock-hard powder-coated, minnow-shaped head also reflects their attention to detail. The shape helps it come through grass and weeds without hanging up, and a trailer-keeper barb can be used to secure plastic trailers or rattle collars.

Unlike the spinnerbait, the buzzbait's head is oriented sideways to create a planer board head effect that lifts the lure high in the water even on very slow retrieves. The head and components are well-balanced and well-matched so the lures track true right from the package.

Secret Weapon uses a slightly heavier stainless steel wire in its frame than most buzzbaits, and it holds up well fish after fish. Buzz-props are aluminum, black powder-coated, or 24-gold plated, and Secret Weapon employs one extra step in manufacturing that gives them a distinctive, satisfying squeak and rattle on the retrieve - the recognizable mark of a premium buzzbait.

What comes next, though, is what really sets Secret Weapon's buzzbait apart from all others. Behind the rivet is a loop in the wire frame, to which is attached one of Secret Weapon's patented inline, Quick-clip spinner blade attachments. The blade rotates around its free-floating shaft on fast retrieves or twirls and flutters on extremely slow retrieves. This creates a flash and commotion right above the lure's hook. Bass, northern pike, and muskie zero-in on the flashing blade rather than the spinning prop. On the strike, the free-floating blade simply pivots out of the way for a unobstructed, solid hookup. This explains the higher hookup ratio achieved with this lure.

This bait uses the same Quick-clip blade attachments that come with Secret Weapon Spinnerbaits or that can be purchased separately wherever Secret Weapons are sold. In seconds, without tools, you can swap out the spinner blade attached behind the buzz prop. Do you want flash right above the hook point (instead of a few inches in front)? Clip on a gold or nickel blade. Want to increase the contrast of your lure silhouetted against the twilight sky? Use a black CO or Indiana blade attachment. Turn your buzzbait into a "wounded minnow" by the addition of a red spinner blade, or increase its “smallmouth appeal” by adding a chartreuse blade.

The trailing spinner blade not only attracts more fish to the business end of the bait, but it stabilizes the lure like the tail on a kite, making it less prone to drift and lay-over. More importantly, the spinner blade increases the drag (that is, the coefficient of friction in the water). You know how putting a pork or plastic chunk on a buzzbait causes it to stay on the surface at slower speed? Well, the trailing spinner blade likewise enables the user to s-l-o-w down their retrieve to a crawl, eclipsing every other buzzbait in this respect. Add a plastic chunk, and the bait just creeps along the surface! The bigger and wider the blade, the more resistance is created and the higher and slower the lure runs.

We are serious about catching more fish, so we package a 3/0 Mustad trailer hook and keeper with the lure. Many topwater bassin' experts consider a trailer blade an essential component for successful buzzbaiting. Unless you're throwing the lure back into the thickest of buckbrush or willows, we recommend you add the trailer hook on every cast. Sometimes bass miss the front hook entirely and are taken on the trailer hook. Another advantage to their use is that many times bass don't get a secure bite on the main buzzbait hook, but in thrashing around the trailer hook sinks home to give you a backup in case the main hook comes loose.

Incredible sound.... more flash and foam right above the hook.... slower retrieves.... better positioning in the water.... all these add up to more hits, better connects, and more fish in the boat. It's time to add another Secret Weapon to your angling arsenal!

Lures are available in three sizes - 3/16-, 5/16-, and 9/16-ounce - and in four models: Midnight Snack (black ice head, black/blue skirt, black powder-coated buzzprop and spinner blade); Wounded Minnow (silver shad head, white/bloodline skirt, aluminum buzzprop, red blade); Chartreuse and White (Chartreuse/White head and skirt, 24-karat gold-plated buzzprop and spinnerblade); and White Shiner (white shad head, white shiner skirt, aluminum buzzprop, nickel spinnerblade). Ask for them at dealers who carry Secret Weapon spinnerbaits, or pick up some from our online store.

Bob Rickard -----------------------
Inventor, Secret Weapon Lures