Mepps Aglia Inline SpinnerSize 2, 4.5g

Overview

Overview

The Mepps Aglia Size 2 is a 4.5g inline spinner built around the original French-style rotating blade design that has made the Aglia one of fishing's most recognisable lures. Its weighted body, freely rotating blade and standard treble hook combine to produce a distinctive mix of flash and vibration as it moves through the water. The blade rotates at approximately 60 degrees from the central shaft, creating a wide spinning profile rather than the narrower action found on the Aglia Long.

This wider rotation generates more resistance through the water and allows the blade to keep turning effectively even at relatively slow retrieve speeds, making the Size 2 a controllable, steady-retrieve spinner. At 4.5g it sits between the smaller 3.5g Size 1 and the larger 6.5g Size 3, giving UK sea anglers a compact but useful amount of extra weight for casting and line control. It remains a lightweight lure, however, and is not intended for conventional heavy beachcasting setups.

The Size 2 is available in Silver, Gold and Copper finishes, letting anglers match blade colour to water clarity, light levels and personal preference.

Perfect For

The Aglia Size 2 suits light coastal spinning around sheltered harbours, estuaries and inshore marks where a compact, flashing lure can be cast and worked with precision. Veals Mail Order lists bass, pollack and mackerel among the sea fishing applications for the Aglia, with a steady retrieve through shallow water generally producing the most consistent blade action.

One of its most interesting applications is as the basis of a traditional baited spinner for thin-lipped grey mullet. By removing the factory treble hook and fitting a short trailing hooklength baited with ragworm, anglers can combine the blade's visual attraction with a trailing bait — a specialist technique associated with tidal estuaries and coastal rivers. The lure is supplied as a conventional spinner, so this baited arrangement is an angler modification rather than a factory-fitted feature.

Technical Insight

The Aglia's French-style blade is designed to rotate freely around the shaft rather than spin with the whole lure body, which is what produces its characteristic flash and vibration rather than line twist. Because the blade works at a wide 60-degree angle, it can keep turning at the slower retrieve speeds favoured for sheltered-water spinning and careful mullet presentations, where a narrower-bladed spinner might stall.

A weighted, compact body gives the Size 2 enough mass for workable casting distance on light spinning tackle without pushing it into metal-lure territory, while the single treble hook keeps the standard setup simple for conventional lure fishing.