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firststrikelures.com and randblures.com both make very good components if interested in twisting up your own Thank you! You just helped me find a Christmas present for my son. Appreciate the info.
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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. Yes, and my absolute favorite is the smallest ones (1/32 oz) with the propeller spinner. I use them on short striking fish as an extra dropper behind a larger spoon or other lure. The combination is deadly on bass, rainbows, walleye, and panfish.
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Panther martin guy here, but I have been known to slum it with a rooster tail and even catch a fish with one from time to time.
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firststrikelures.com and randblures.com both make very good components if interested in twisting up your own Thank you! You just helped me find a Christmas present for my son. Appreciate the info. Lonny, You bet. They make make great lures. One of those has a bell-shaped lure body like blue fox. If you like blue fox lures you are going to love these because they're solid brass and very heavy, so they cast and sink well.. unlike the original blue fox
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Fooking trout and the catch and release fly fishing brigade.
Most are stockers. If not, doubt it’s in the regs to keep them. They eat like schit regardless.
Anyway, nice fish! Well since your state ruined it's trout fishing decades ago and have had to resort to put and take tax payer funded fishery. My state, Montana is desperately trying trying to conserve a vital natural resource that is a huge driver in our economy. Franky I am sick and tired of fuggin Washintonians coming here and exploiting our resources. Wild trout are a fragile and special resource and deserve to be preserved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw424ImpO3k
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PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha
Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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They have been my go to Brook Trout lure since the mids 70's. I add a chunk of crawler to the hook for wait casting and smell.
My favorite colors are chartreuse and black.
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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. My experience also.
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Caught more on a Kastmaster. Panther Martin too.
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If I could chose one lure for all species of freshwater fish in North American it would a be a Rooster Tail or Little Cleo spoon. They seem to work on most everything. I used to buy the 1/16 oz gold blade brown body for East Tennessee mountain trout. It works like a charm.
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I used to use the purple ones a lot, but they discontinued that color.
Pike and small mouth really liked them.
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My favorite on highcountry trout... ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/NFSTqG5B/DSC04535.jpg)
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Susquehanna River smallmouths on white Rooster Tails back in the day.
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My favorite on highcountry trout... Nice. I like 'em cooked in foil, right on the coals.
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Grew up on those things, we lived on a golf course and it would be me and my bike, a rod across the handle bars, and small tackle box of rooster tails going around to all those golf course ponds. Caught many a bass, brim, and some crappy on them.
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My favorite on highcountry trout... Healthy Cutthroat! Miss catching those & enjoying the pink meat
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They look the same, but IMO same size and color , same lake, same day, rooster tail/ panther martin...the panther martin will outfish the rooster tail 2 to 1. Kokanee, rainbow and brookies, non hatchery fish. There are some cavitation dimples in the spinner, maybe that has something to do with it. My test subject is an 11 year old master angler.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Use them a lot in the limestone slab creeks here. Most anything will hit them
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Plenty of trout on yellow but I seem to do better with Panther Martins. Both good IMO they cast well and have enough weight to get down to the fish.
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My favorite on highcountry trout... Healthy Cutthroat! Miss catching those & enjoying the pink meat In the high lakes here (above timberline) they're not pink, no crustaceans up that high. But they're still really good to eat.
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One of my favorites for Texas Hill Country streams and stock tanks was the 1/32 propeller in chartreuse.
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