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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.

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Lots. Trout on green frog, bass on black.

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Originally Posted by MarkWV
Lots. Trout on green frog, bass on black.


Crome blade?


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Cohos in Lake Erie 35-45 years ago on black rooster tails, northerns more recently on chartreuse.

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I have caught a bunch using them.

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Originally Posted by jaguartx
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Lots. Trout on green frog, bass on black.


Crome blade?

On the Black rooster tail, gold on the green frog.

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Use them a lot in the limestone slab creeks here. Most anything will hit them

Topic of many discussions in high school shop class 35 years ago

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There are lots if small streams in the area with trout and they love a 1/32oz silver blade/black hackle Roostertail.

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Originally Posted by slumlord
Use them a lot in the limestone slab creeks here. Most anything will hit them

Topic of many discussions in high school shop class 35 years ago


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Originally Posted by MarkWV
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Lots. Trout on green frog, bass on black.


Crome blade?

On the Black rooster tail, gold on the green frog.


Thanks.


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As a kid it was my go-to for a spinner…caught a 15 1/2 lb. Steelhead the winter of 1975….Hula poppers, pearl finish wobblerites and black rooster tails had my fishing needs covered…

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Originally Posted by Springcove
I have caught a bunch using them.


Yep. Used them quite a bit in stock tanks and creeks when I was a kid. Caught lots of perch, Bass, crappie, And even the occasional channel cat on them.

Also used the Mepps spinners quite a bit back then too.
And the old Johnson Weedless Silver Spoon too.

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Yellow shyster with yellow tail and silver blade works good on bass i a lot of less than real clear Texas creeks.

White on white bass on lakes.


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I once laid down a decent rooster tail in the bed that I believed was just a benign fart...Wife wasn’t amused by my Shart.

Sorry for not posting this under Slummy’s thread on taking a dump w/o a shirt on. I was shirtless at the time.

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Originally Posted by Beaver10
I once laid down a decent rooster tail in the bed that I believed was just a benign fart...Wife wasn’t amused by my Shart.

Sorry for not posting this under Slummy’s thread on taking a dump w/o a shirt on. I was shirtless at the time.

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Originally Posted by Middlefork_Miner
As a kid it was my go-to for a spinner…caught a 15 1/2 lb. Steelhead the winter of 1975….Hula poppers, pearl finish wobblerites and black rooster tails had my fishing needs covered…


Hula Poppers on bass? What color. I used frog and yellow skirt.


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Originally Posted by jaguartx
Yellow shyster with yellow tail and silver blade works good on bass i a lot of less than real clear Texas creeks.

White on white bass on lakes.


I remember catching white bass on them in the local lakes casting them from the shoreline.


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Nothing but smallmouth in fast water, but they seemed to like it.


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