# Keitech Tee-Bone Double Willow: the spinnerbait that holds its line > A Tee-Bone head, blades that spin from the splash and a cone guard on the clevis: what this spinnerbait does differently, and what Keitech leaves unsaid. - Source : https://carnafish.com/en/leurres/keitech-tee-bone-double-willow-spinnerbait/ - Language : en-US - Updated : 2026-10-02 ## Spec sheet - Brand : Keitech - Model : Tee-Bone Double Willow Spinnerbait - Type : Double willow spinnerbait - Target species : Bass, Pike - Size : not published by the manufacturer - Weight : not published ; the weight is stamped on each bait's trailer keeper - Running depth : subsurface to around 4 m / 13 ft depending on speed and chosen weight - Retrieve speed : slow to medium, the blades start turning the moment it lands - Action : straight, stable tracking, subtle vibration and flash from two willow blades, vertical helicoptering fall on the pause - Rigging : straight to braid or fluorocarbon, wire trace mandatory where pike are present ; trailer keeper for adding a soft swimbait - Colors : silver head and white skirt matched to gold blades in clear water, Chartreuse White skirt in stained water, dark skirt in muddy water Everybody knows the spinnerbait that will not run straight: it leans to one side, climbs towards the surface the moment you speed up, and you end up bending the wire by hand to true it. That is the family's historic flaw, and it is exactly what Keitech goes after with the head it calls Tee-Bone. The rest of the bait is conventional; that head is not. ## A head drawn to do one thing: hold a line Keitech states that the Tee-Bone head shape lets the bait track straight through the water with remarkable stability. That is the headline claim, and it is more concrete than it sounds. A spinnerbait is an unbalanced object by nature: two blades spinning on one side, a lead mass on the other, all held together by a V-shaped wire. Any flaw in posture shows up as lateral drift you have to correct with your wrist. A wider, flatter head like the one in the photo works as a keel: it resists the roll the blades impose on the bait. You feel the benefit most when you accelerate, or when you fish across a lateral current — the two situations where an ordinary spinnerbait starts to lie over. The maker adds that the bait remains entirely weedless around cover. Treat that as a brand claim: a spinnerbait's V-wire does genuinely shield the hook in timber and grass, but no hooked bait crosses a lily pad mat. ## The two willow blades, and why they start so fast The double willow combination produces, according to Keitech, subtle vibration and flash. That is the willow signature: long and narrow, it moves little water but throws a lot of light. Unlike a round colorado blade, which pushes hard and thumps low, the willow is built for clear water and medium to brisk speeds. The point Keitech pushes is activation speed. The blades are designed to spin up immediately, which has two very practical consequences: - the bait rises as soon as it hits the water, so you can attack a margin without letting the spinnerbait reach bottom; - conversely, on the pause, it keeps a perfectly vertical falling posture with the blades still turning. That is the helicoptering drop, deadly along a breakline or beside a dock piling. > The vertical fall is half the bait. Cast along a margin, crank three turns, then stop dead and let it drop two metres before picking up again. On a fish sitting under a branch, that spinning descent triggers far more often than a steady retrieve. ### The cone guard on the clevis This is the detail nobody looks at in the shop and that can save a session. Keitech fits a cone-shaped blade guard ahead of the clevis, whose stated job is to stop debris collecting there. A clevis fouled by a strand of weed means a blade that has stopped turning — and you go on retrieving a dead bait for ten casts without noticing. On waters with filamentous algae, that little part matters more in practice than the skirt colour. ## The hook and the trailer keeper The bait carries a Katsuichi hook made to Keitech's specification. In the photo it is a single hook with no stinger added: if you are dropping fish, adding a trailer hook is always possible, but it does cut down how cleanly the bait goes through timber. The trailer keeper is there to pin a soft bait behind the skirt. Keitech credits it, along with the skirt design, with two jobs: maintaining the bait's horizontal posture through the retrieve, and improving castability. A poorly balanced spinnerbait that spins in flight loses a lot of distance; a tight skirt and a well-set trailer fix that. One last and genuinely useful oddity: the maker stamps weight indicators directly on the trailer keeper. No weight list appears in the description, so no range can be quoted here — but the bait in your hand carries its weight marked on it. That is more reliable than packaging you lost months ago. ## A discrepancy in the maker's own copy It needs flagging, because it appears verbatim at the retailer: one sentence of the description credits the Tee-Bone head to a "Tee-Bone Colorado Willow Spinnerbait", while the product being described is clearly the double willow version. It is plainly text carried over from the colorado-willow model in the same family. What to take from it: the head is shared between the two versions, the blades are not — colorado-willow for stained water and thump, double willow for clear water and flash. ### The classic mistake Fishing a double willow too slowly. A willow blade needs speed to release its flash and load the wire; crawled along, it turns but says nothing. If you genuinely need to slow down, switch to a colorado blade or to a bladed jig like the [Keitech Tungsten Model I](https://carnafish.com/en/leurres/keitech-tungsten-model-i/), which keeps a strong signature at minimum speed. Second mistake, specific to Europe: fishing a spinnerbait along margins where pike live without a wire trace. The spinnerbait's own wire arm is not a leader, and a pike that takes the skirt costs you the bait. ## Colours by water - **Clear water**: the combination in the photo — pearl white skirt with brown strands, silver head, gold blades — a package that reads as a small shoal of baitfish. - **Lightly stained water**: Chartreuse White, the spinnerbait classic that never dates, keeping sharp contrast without going fully fluorescent. - **Muddy water or a low sky**: a dark skirt, black or black and blue, whose silhouette stands out better than a pale colour once visibility drops. Keitech notes that the blades colour-match the skirts and heads. That is not just cosmetic: gold flash over a white skirt does not send the same signal as nickel flash, and the package has to stay coherent so the fish is not given two contradictory messages. Which spinnerbait you pick matters less than which margin you throw it at. That is exactly what [CarnaFish](https://carnafish.com/) does: one photo of the spot, and the AI suggests the zone, the depth and the type of bait that suit the day. To widen out to the other families worth having on a margin, our [guide to choosing a pike lure](https://carnafish.com/en/blog/quel-leurre-brochet/) is a good companion to this page. ## What to remember - The Tee-Bone head targets stability and straight tracking, the spinnerbait family's historic weakness. - The blades spin up from the splash: the bait rises immediately and drops vertically with blades turning on the pause. - The cone guard ahead of the clevis keeps debris from jamming the rotation — decisive on waters with filamentous weed. - No weight is published in the description, but every bait carries its weight stamped on the trailer keeper. ## FAQ ### What is the difference between double willow and colorado-willow? A willow blade is long and narrow: plenty of flash, little vibration, ideal in clear water at a brisk pace. A colorado-willow pairing adds a round blade that pushes water and thumps low, which suits stained water and slow retrieves far better. ### Which weight should I choose? The manufacturer's description publishes no weight list. Each bait does, however, carry its weight stamped on the trailer keeper, so you can check it directly on the model in your hand. ### Should I add a soft trailer? The bait has a trailer keeper, so yes, it is designed for one. A small swimbait adds volume and steadies the horizontal posture; in exchange it slows the bait, which can be useful when you want to go slower without stalling the blades. ### Is this spinnerbait suitable for pike? Yes, a double willow works well for searching pike along margins, provided you run a wire trace. The spinnerbait's wire arm does not protect your line: a take on the skirt cuts fluorocarbon cleanly. ### Why has my spinnerbait stopped vibrating? Nine times out of ten it is debris jammed in the clevis stopping the blade turning. That is precisely what this model's cone guard is designed to prevent; on a model without one, like many [open-arm spinnerbaits](https://carnafish.com/en/leurres/strike-king-tour-grade-spinnerbait/), you have to check rotation regularly. ### Is it a search bait or a target bait? A search bait above all: you throw it along a margin, a weed edge or a line of docks, covering water quickly. Compared with a [Booyah Blade Double Willow Spinnerbait](https://carnafish.com/en/leurres/booyah-blade-double-willow-spinnerbaits/), it puts the emphasis on tracking rather than on price. --- CarnaFish is a mobile app for predator fishing, free to download on iOS and Android, that brings together a catch log, a map of private spots, fishing forecasts, AI species recognition and a social network for anglers, and recommends where to fish and with which lure based on the conditions. To cite this content, mention “CarnaFish — carnafish.com” and link the source page.