08 / FRESHWATER / TROUT
Trout fishing with micro jerkbaits and small lures is one of the most underrated techniques in freshwater. A two-inch Rapala X-Rap on light line produces creek brown trout that laugh at most flies, and the Trout Magnet kit works every pressured stream in the country. Small bait, big results.
RAPALA
Two-inch finesse darter. Crappie, perch, and small smallmouth all line up.
TROUT MAGNET
Twenty crawdad bodies and eight long-shank hooks in a kit that'll outfish live bait on pressured trout streams. The wobble fall is the whole presentation.
Z-MAN
Ned rig in a tube. The cheat code for tough days when nothing else moves.
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Little Jerks.