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Ok I get it.... kinda like a high fence hunting operation..... my bad.... carry on ... internet hero's

🤮🤮fun to catch, ain’t worth a shiit to eat. Carry on

Put and take fisheries are great for flatlanders.... your tax dollars at work... I will take my trout wild, thank you

Work great on spawning white bass.

I used-to tear the small mouth bass and crappy up on Lake Murray and the two Santee Cooper lakes .... Rooster Tails are great spinner baits.

I actually had a garr hit one at Maddox Bay Arkansas years ago. I watched him do it right up close to the boat.

We crush peacock bass down here with them, along with road runners, beetle spins, crappie jigs, etc. Anything small, fast and shiny gets et.

I’ve caught quite a few trout with them and some sort of bass looking fish. And I suck at fishing so they can’t be all that bad.

What a coincidence...

75* today, too hot to hunt.

Hit the small creek that i grew up fishing on.

Big enough for paddlin a johnboat.

Mostly all i fish is rooster tails.

I’ll catch both bream and bass with them.

Usually bright colors as the water will be dingy at best.

4 bass today.

Throw em with a #20 plueger president and UL ugly stik.

dim som brims an shell crakas

And rgrx1276 it is pretty obvious by their colors, or lack of, they are stocked fish. They probably stock that lake every year with similar for a put and take fishery. Some "experts" here obviously don't know chit or they would see that too, or they are just jealous because they have never caught even one that big.
Good for you rgx, hope they tasted great.

Bill

Oh and for the OP, I've lost count of the fish of different species I've caught on Rooster Tails.

Bill

Damn, those are fat! The rooster tails I have in my tackle box don't do so well. They seem to have attracted me more than the fish. The most productive spinners seem to be plain jane brass blue fox for me. In any case, the only freshwater salmonids I eat these days are Kokanee and Brookies.

I think I caught a handful of grayling on them, but I haven't flung hardware at the waters since I learned to use a flyrod.

Go to lure for me. Tons of small bass and perch using yellow, black, white, & Chartreuse, (in that order).

Doubt id do much eating them as ive had smaller ones caught by a friend. He didn't cornmeal fry them so i was still hungry for fried fish the next day. I needed some smallish white bass, black bass, crappie, catfish or speckled trout rolled in buttermilk and cornmeal and fried.

Tag

Trophy trout tastes good- - - - -so does ivory-billed woodpecker!

Growing up, one of my favorite lures was a Rooster Tail....although it wasn't the lure I used the most. As kids, we always fished the local beaver dam ponds, which had a lot of underwater brush and snags. I simply couldn't afford to lose a Rooster Tail, so I primarily used black/yellow Beetle Spins...it took a little more work to get one of those hung up, and when you did, they were only $0.69/each (versus $2 for the Roosters).

Rooster tails are manufactured here about thirty miles from me. At least that was where they started. My older sister worked for them in the early years. Back then the employees got first pick of the blems or stuff that didn't make the grade.

That girl brought home handfuls of lures.

Many, many fishes on yellow and white spotted rooster tails! Many more on purple beetlespins.