11-11-2002, 10:44 PM
Its the only way to fish for trout. I use spinners all the time in my trout fishing. On rivers, my best bets are Panther martins, silver blade with the yellow body red dots down the side. Also mepps agila black blade with yellow dots. Those are my best brown trout rigs. The rest of the trout seem to do well on red and white stripped mepps. Now for lake fishing, we troll them on the surface, on downriggers, or just cast them. Mepps has a brown trout pattern agila that is killer on cutthroat trout. I also use spinners on smallmouth bass. They are killer, I actually discovered this by accident fishing trout one day and all I was catching was smallies. So, now I use spinners for smallies too. Spinners work for so many different species. Lots of guys catch muskies on them as well.