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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Spinner of the Year - 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

 This unique Spinner model has been our flagship design from the beginning, that's like 23 years.


Faceted Glass and noisy Friction Discs, make this spinner a unique alternative and great addition to your tackle collection.

30% Discount code valid through January 2022. GlassArm2022  good on 1/8oz, 1/5oz, and 1/4oz Glass Armadillos!



My favorites are the Swing blade spinners in the upper number ranges. The Fluted Indiana's all work great, just a thing about that Swing blades' behavior I guess. Here's a few pictures and a link to the web store.

Stay tuned for some special pricing or chose one of the current special pricing deals

Current cross-model Special pricing

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo in Store




Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Fish Creek Spinners 1/8oz Glass Armadillo

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Fish Creek Spinner youtubes (from Colorado)

 Time to cattle prod those "get your feet wet" nerves!

First, some Dashboard views! Getting there is half the fun - Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton



Gopro videos from Zirkel Wilderness - Beaver Pond fishing with Fish Creek Spinners






South Platte Gill Trail- Nice flow and gravel bottom - Canyon chutes and rushing narrows





Rocky Mountain National Park - Windy Fall Day in the Park


Thursday, December 23, 2021

Cold weather, Cable Spinners and other brain storms

 After going through a cycle of making some cowbells, the cable was left on my workbench along with other spinner clutter (it's a mess, like my desk), on a cold December day. 

So I got to thinking, why not make a some small trout spinners using cable vs wire, and bucktails?

Sounded like a good idea, so here's what I came up with.


I bet I could put these at the end of the cowbells for trolling or just fish them like spinners in streams and river current. 

I think I'll make some with hoochies and banded zonker trebles too.


This is a hoochie treble.



Banded zonker trebles



In the zone, here's another custom idea. Cement mirrors on to the blades using the stuff your dentist uses on fillings and caps, it's water proof.

Inline mirrored Buzzers. Put it in front of your cowbell. These ought to shake something loose!


These ought to flash a bit!

It's cold outside, what could I do!

Cheers and Noise on the Line!





Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Fish Creek Spinners Models Specifications page

 Last night I recognized I needed to provide additional information on each Spinner models' component differences and similarities. 

My first shot at it, shows and image of the spinner, and it's weight. Bulleted Text lists blade size and style, components - Glass, Metal, Plastic for head, body and tail beads plus size and type of hook.

The most prevalent type of hooks used on wholesale spinners are trebles. During shopping there is an option box listing other hook types on most spinner items - Treble (default), Single, and barbless Treble are the common option set. I'll be refining this over time.

Here's a screen scrape of a typical models specification


Spinner Specification page section

Cheers and Noise on the Line!




Monday, December 20, 2021

Fish Creek Spinner Galleries

 Still working on the Square website. Here are two slideshows recently added.

The first is a collection of fish pictures I've accumulated that were sent by customers over the years.




Fish Creek Spinners Fish pictures


The second is a collection of my son Ben's carvings.


Bens Carvings

Take a look, if you click a picture, you go into slideshow mode. Hit ESC to exit the show.

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Overstock Assortments

Over the years, my son Ben and I have made a 'bunch' of spinners. Lots of models, lots of colors, lots of different blade styles. Boxes of finished product and wall full of pegs 8 deep.

Cowbells, Spinnerbaits, Walley rigs, Small spinners, Large spinners, and Custom spinners. In certain cases, fishermen in fishing forums came up with new ideas.



Fifteen years of hit and miss, lessons learned and course correction ... Overstocked.

Overstock, that I need to clean out to make space and simplify running the business.

When I sell displays to most tackle shops. I fill a wooden display with 48 spinners, walk in, show it and sell it wholesale for $110. Quick and easy. These owners are busy and if they a have a spot for a display, they deckscrew it to a wall or it sits on a countertop surface that day. A major retailer would have a buyer and purchase orders and draft a long list of items and quantities preparing for a seasons worth of inventory. 

Anyway, I'm still looking for tackle distributors, but in the meantime, I still want to reduce finished inventory and make some wall and shelf space available for other use. 

So, I came up with the idea of cutting prices down below wholesale levels on Spinners that have more inventory then I'll ever sell. 

These deals are for small and medium spinners only, anything under 1/2oz

Cowbells, Spinnerbaits, Walleye Rigs, Musky Spinners and Olympic Bullets are not in the deal.



Here's the catch, to get the deal you let me pick them for you, just like you're a small tackle shop, lol. I get to move more product at cost and it saves you time and money. 

You can use the Contact form on the website for any preferences you would like to mention, like a few colors you prefer or those you don't, etc. The hooks that are on them are trebles.

Take a look around, these are the types of spinners you'll get

There are currently four Overstock items set up.

  1. 12 spinners for $27 (around 2.25 each) Retail value will be more like$42+
  2. 20 spinners for $45 (around 2.25 each) Retail value will be more like $70+
  3. 36 spinners for $72 (around $2.00 each) Retail value would be about $126+ 
  4. 72 spinners for $126 (around $1.75 each) Retail value would be about $252+

If you're familiar with our products and want more or just want some new fishing swag to pass out for stocking stuffers or fill out some space in your tackle box, one of these deals is a great way to stock some new tackle.

Too many spinners? Nope, you can never have too many!

 Maybe you have a favorite local Tackle shop that wants some new swag?

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Changing Views

Chainsaw Brush Rat progress report.


New Years Day 2015


April 11th 2015




November 29th, 2021

Thursday, November 4, 2021

 


Well, where to start. Will this publish? 

Blogging is fun. Just not as much as other things. We bought a home in an oak forest, above Lake Wisconsin, that was touched by Oak wilt. The good news is I increased my Chainsaw collection from 1 to 5 and have plenty of seasoned oak for the fireplace, and the woods now looks like a Park. New Fiskars splitting axes as well. Recommend them!

Wisconsin River Delta entering Lake Wisconsin

Back to Fish Creek Spinners. The website has been hacked many times causing availability issues and outright loss of function. Eventually I gave up on it and had to lick my wounds.  I crafted a few handwritten invoices and took a few Checks in the Mail orders, while pondering how to fix the nightmare.

So, I don't ponder quick, but I recently went with a new service - Square. I've been testing functionality on the free (pay by the drink) offering, and it seems to have a far more refined user interface then the Magenta offering that turned sour. The cell phone interface on Square is pretty cool. No real Search Engine history on it with .net so you'll have to type it in. That's why I am looking into a domain transfer.

Now I'm taking pictures of Spinners again. Have a light box and Photoshop. I expect to transfer the Domain name of fishcreekspinners.com in a bit, but right now went with another - fishcreekspinners.net Get it? .net what a great fishing theme suffix. Have to see where this ends up.



So take a look, I've gotten about eight models launched so far and some overstock discount pricing that I hope takes off. 


Cheers and Noise on the Line! 




Saturday, October 23, 2021

New FCS Web Store on Square

 After the move, the web store hosting tanked and my store site was hacked without a backup, thanks ISP.

After the reality of what that meant, no invoicing, no paypal, nocredit cards, only checks sank in...

I've finally started to rebuild a new web store for online orders. At the moment, it's still on square.site, but in the near future I plan to get another URL. 

I'm going to be adding a Deals category for overstock and models I want to discontinue. Stay tuned!

Check it out and any feedback appreciated.

https://fishcreekspinners.net

Here's a few fish pictures recently sent from North Carolina on blue armadillo's





Noise on the Line!