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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.
🦫 🤦♂️ Yeah....A real proud moment for me. LOL 🦫
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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. Yep. Silver spoon any time you see bass chasing minnows or shad in shallow water.
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Love them
Would include them in my top 5 favorites
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Used to slay the smallmouth with them in the South Umpqua River on crawdad (brown)/brass, yellow/brass and black/silver, in that order of preference. Nothing else even came close. They worked on trout in the mountain streams and lakes too.
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They are just Ok in my book. used them alot but found out the main wire is not that stout. After catching a fish or two they bend and that really screws up the blade from spinning easily. My go 2 spinner is the panther martin. They spin easier, come in many colors and you can really feal it working. Also, the rooster tail sometimes wont spin when retrieved and you have to give a quick jerk on the line during your retrieve to get it spinnin, not with the panther martin. IMO.
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They are just Ok in my book. used them alot but found out the main wire is not that stout. After catching a fish or two they bend and that really screws up the blade from spinning easily. My go 2 spinner is the panther martin. They spin easier, come in many colors and you can really feal it working. Also, the rooster tail sometimes wont spin when retrieved and you have to give a quick jerk on the line during your retrieve to get it spinnin, not with the panther martin. IMO. Yep! Same experience here, quit using them went to Martins and Blue Fox.
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Lots of bass and bluegill. I haven't noticed the color making any difference, but I'm probably not nearly good enough of a fisherman to be able to tell. 
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Dog Catcher,
You and I must just not know how to fish them. I have part of an old tackle box full of the rusted, corroded, smelly things and they haven't caught much, if anything. I'd take a jig or a small spoon over bucktail spinners any day. Given the choice I'll take a Rapala over everything else.
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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. I wish I had a quarter for every fish I've caught on Rooster Tails. They are my "go to" lure for creek fishing . Smallies and KY Bass like the smaller ones and I use larger ones for stripers and more open water. I never am without a few Rooster Tails. I usuallu use the White and Yellow ones, but in low light at dusk, Black and darker colors work best.
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Orange fluorescent with a gold blade...Caught many fish on then including a few over twenty inch smallmouth and browns up to 7 pounds on Superior. If the blade stops spinning bend it with your fingers until it;s flat
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I’ve got some trout with them.
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A bunch of Ohio steelhead on metallic grey stained water or pink in clear water. Lost a bunch too, gotta be banging the bottom with these steelhead.
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I’ve caught a few on Rooster Tails but most of my spinner fishing for trout is done with Panther Martins.
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Hula Poppers on bass? What color. I used frog and yellow skirt.
Didn’t seem to matter.
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Black or red, 1/6 or 1/8 oz Is the first lure in the lake when fishing mountain lakes for trout in these parts.
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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. 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.
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Wow! Totally surprised. I'll try them again I guess..
A red/white mepps, orange blade mepps, black panther with yellow dots, and yellow with red dots are my standard spinners.
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I use them on the high mountain lakes here and have caught rainbows, browns, brooks and tiger trout with them.
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Yep. I've caught a whole mess of sunfish and bluegills on rooster tails - even the odd large-mouth now and then, back when I was a kid.
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l told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world, and by God, I was right.
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They are just Ok in my book. used them alot but found out the main wire is not that stout. After catching a fish or two they bend and that really screws up the blade from spinning easily. My go 2 spinner is the panther martin. They spin easier, come in many colors and you can really feal it working. Also, the rooster tail sometimes wont spin when retrieved and you have to give a quick jerk on the line during your retrieve to get it spinnin, not with the panther martin. IMO. Ditto
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