I use a black blade for one of my most productive home-made spinners ever. I call it my Green Butt Skunk spinner. I usually use black french blades in sizes 2, 3, or 4 (depending on water color & depth- mostly 3 for steelhead). Use a tiny red bead below the clevis. Then I use a weighted body in mostly chrome with some thin red stripes, and put a short piece of kelly green tubing on the upper hook shank. Tiny red feathers out the tubing is an option. Like the famous fly I patterned this after, it works great! I think you could pattern a spoon after this by painting a chrome version with black (& a little red) enamel, but I haven't tried it yet. - Steve