Just went to sporting goods store and noticed a large display of Rooster Tail spinners. In my 50 years on the planet, I've never caught a fish on one. Has anyone? Mepps, panther martin, blue fox...yes. Zilch on a rooster tail.
Someone must be buying them, because they still make them.
I mean, trout hit “shiny things” so it’ll catch fish, and yes I’ve caught a bunch of trout on Rooster Tails. But Panther Martins are the much better mousetrap and I’ve caught orders of magnitude more using them. You can cast them farther, and they catch more fish. Rooster Tails turn into little parachutes when you cast them.
The ocean salmon fishing off the Oregon coast was nuts this year. I caught over 50 of them (for the most part, you can only keep clipped-fin coho salmon, and the ratio is about 3:1 or 4:1 wild/clipped).... you wouldn’t believe the lures those things hit. None of this being line-shy or picky bidness like trout.
