Willow or Colorado blades

[wakina]

Getting into trolling harnesses this year instead of spoons and cranks. Do you have blade and color preferences for fishing west of the islands? Also brands would be great advice too.

Thanks in advance

Suggest that you also look at the hatchet blades(Doc Shelton)also, you can troll them faster than Colorado blades and they present a larger profile from the quartering side than willows. They work well for me up to about 2.2gps speed. I run them in a spread with spoons. At the higher spoon speeds (2.2 or less) you must check your leader more frequently since the higher rotation of the blade clevis wears the line faster. Always use a clevis that is larger than needed if you intend to troll at higher speeds as they help control line/leader twist. The hatchet blades are unique in that they spin in one direction for even numbered blades and the opposite direction for odd numbered blades. My go to sizes are 6 and 7.

The top of the blades vary so much with different color schemes that it is hard to pin down for you, but blades painted in popular spoon color patterns as well as a mixture of golds, silvers, coppers, purples and pinks. The backs should include some with pink, anti freeze, plain copper, plain gold, chartreuse and plain silver. Now that should be enough to get you started and confuse you.