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Try the inline vibric rooster tails. You won't have the issue with them.

Kast masters are a favorite. I’ve had good luck swinging them like a traditional spoon for steelhead and slow rolling them for warm water fish like bass and even walleye.

The PM are great too. Black with either a copper or silver blade. One is getting hit, switch blade color. Killed a bunch of trout with them👍

Trout make great bait for halibut.

That is probably the highest best use of those Washington planter trash fish..... your tax dollars at work.... hahahahhahahahaha

Yep.

And here you are bitching about trout caught in a pond in New Mexico. Lol.

Hey now, I acknowledged I was mistaken and assumed they were wild trout...

Lol. All good man.

I love catching wild freestone river trout. Little native cutthroat in Colorado or native brookies in GA.

Don’t keep many, if any at all, just because I don’t enjoy eating them.

I didn’t know that is what caused the flesh color to change! Nice factoid!

I fished for years in the Wind River & Bridger Wliderness out of Pinedale, Wy. Specifically Trappers Lake to up near Green River Crossing and even up to Elbow Lake near the CD but those were mostly Goldens. So tasty over a willow fire.

They work. In a wide variety of applications and species. Brookies to muskelunge. Everything in between. There’s a pattern, size, and color for anything. I keep some in every box. Particularly good for tying into novice lines. Kids. When you just have to have something biting anything to keep the attention span on-point. I’m more into trolling spoons and collect vintage suttons for salmonoids. But, if you’re gonna cast, they’re the original ‘Spinnerbait’. I like jigging ice with bucktails.

We DO have native EBT’s and LL salmon in Maine and parts of NH as well. It is a rare resource, but it’s not exclusive to the west..

Yep, they put ground up shrimp shells in farm-raised fish feed to give the flesh color.

For table fare , there is a long list of fish that eat better than trout

And/or dyes...

I wish I took more pics or a single one lol

Nice pics gents.

Ocean or river striper are my favorite.

Halibut. Cod. Tuna. Trout. Salmon.

Fug catfish……. Yuk.

worms. worms work. Never caught a fish on a rooster tail, despite much trying.

Stupid fish....

Read that someone mentioned kastmasters. They work great, cast a mile even in wind and can be twitched while being retrieved. switch out the stock treble for a gamakatsu and you have a fish catching machine if used properly.

Giant Springs, Bitterroot, Big Springs and Ennis Hatchery's , come to mind as Montana fish hatchery's. There may be others I'm not sure. Like all western states Montana, screwed the pooch on trout fisheries before anyone here was born. Brooke's are an invasive species to all western states. Just keeping things straight. And rooster tails work everywhere one might go, as well as many others.

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The money I have wasted trying