01 / FRESHWATER / TROUT
Trout respond to flash, vibration, and profile. The inline spinner is the most consistent trout producer in freshwater, and the casting spoon covers every water type from mountain streams to deep reservoirs. These are the picks that work for rainbow, brown, and lake trout.
MEPPS
The French spinner that started it all. Colorado blade thumps, squirrel-tail dressing pulses, and every freshwater species within earshot comes to investigate.
BLUE FOX
Two-piece brass body that hums at a frequency fish can detect from twenty feet. The Vibrax is what steelheaders throw when Mepps feels too mainstream.
PANTHER MARTIN
Holographic blade that shimmers and flickers in sunlight like a disco ball on a wire. The original inline spinner — blade mounts directly on the shaft, zero dead spots.
WORDEN'S
Pulsating hackle tail + spinning blade = the most versatile multi-species lure ever made. Five bucks. Catches bass, trout, panfish, pike, and your neighbor's respect.
ACME
Six bucks of chrome-plated brass that catches everything with fins. Cast it, jig it, troll it — the Kastmaster doesn't care about your technique, it just flashes and fish show up.
ACME
Holographic tape on a Kastmaster body. The flash is visible from distance in stained water. Trout, bass, stripers — they all see it and they all hate it.
LUHR JENSEN
Wide wobble, heavy flash, casts a mile. The Krocodile has been the go-to casting spoon for salmon, trout, and steelhead since before most anglers were born. Works in salt too.
FIELD JOURNAL
Jerking 101 — the cadence that catches fishVIEW ALL
Hard Jerks.