YUM Covert Trailer

Engineered for Perfect Spinnerbait Balance and Swim

One of the most overlooked factors in spinnerbait performance is trailer balance. Too much plastic behind the head and the bait bogs down, losing vibration and blade speed. Too little and the skirt flares unnaturally, the hook rides high, and the entire presentation feels weightless and lifeless. Jason Christie designed the Yum Covert Spinnerbait Trailer with a precisely calibrated plastic mass that keeps the Covert spinnerbait tracking true at every retrieve speed — from a slow roll along deep ledges in summer to a medium-paced burn over shallow grass flats in early fall. The result is a balanced presentation where blades, head, skirt, and trailer all work as a unified system rather than fighting each other.

Built to Last — Tournament-Grade Durability

Spinnerbait trailers take abuse. Every strike, every hookset, every contact with rock or wood tries to tear the plastic off the hook shank. Most soft plastic trailers last one or two fish before they split, slide down, or need replacing. The Yum Covert Spinnerbait Trailer is molded from an exceptionally tough plastisol compound formulated for repeated catches without material failure. Jason Christie has reported fishing an entire tournament day on a single trailer across dozens of fish. That durability means less time re-rigging and more time with a bait in the water — a genuine competitive advantage when you are covering water fast and every minute on the cast counts.

Foolproof Rigging with Alignment Guides

A crooked trailer will make a spinnerbait roll, track to one side, or lose its intended vibration pattern. And rigging soft plastic trailers straight on a spinnerbait hook is harder than it sounds — especially in cold hands, on a rocking boat, or in a hurry during a tournament. The Yum Covert Spinnerbait Trailer features molded alignment lines running lengthwise and crosswise across the body. These visual and tactile guides make it nearly impossible to rig the trailer off-center. The result is a spinnerbait that swims perfectly straight on the first cast, not the third — eliminating one of the most common and costly rigging errors in spinnerbait fishing.

Sized for Both Covert and Covert Finesse Spinnerbaits

Trailer fit is not universal. The Yum Covert Spinnerbait Trailer is engineered with a specific hook-channel diameter that matches the Covert series wire and hook gauge precisely. For the full-size Covert spinnerbait, you fish the trailer as-is. For the Covert Finesse, Christie built in a molded tear-off line at the upper third of the body. Pinch at that line, tear cleanly, and the trimmed trailer fits the smaller finesse hook shank perfectly with zero guesswork. This two-in-one sizing approach eliminates the need to carry separate trailers for different Covert models, simplifying your tackle storage while keeping both presentations dialed.

Subtle Boot Tail Action That Triggers Bites at Any Speed

The Yum Covert Spinnerbait Trailer features small, intentionally understated boot-style tail fins. Unlike oversized paddle tails that create too much drag and can overpower a spinnerbait's intended blade action, these micro boots produce a subtle kicking vibration that activates even at the slowest retrieval speeds. When you are slow rolling a Covert spinnerbait through cold water below 55°F, targeting lethargic bass hugging deep structure, those boots give the trailer just enough movement to look alive without altering the head's swim track. At faster speeds, the boots fold back and let the blades do the talking. It is speed-adaptive action that complements the spinnerbait rather than competing with it — exactly the kind of nuance that separates purpose-designed trailers from generic soft plastics repurposed as an afterthought.