Any good suggestions for rainbow trout lures. I don't have any problem catching the browns but the rainbow give me a hard time.
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Any good suggestions for rainbow trout lures. I don't have any problem catching the browns but the rainbow give me a hard time.
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Panther Martins- yellow body with red dots and silver blade
Origional Rapalas- silver with black back or rainbow trout
Tasmanian Devil- red/yellow/green or pink
Flatfish- silver
Rooster tail- yellow body, silver blade, black skirt
Kastmaster- silver
If you are trolling: Beer can pop- gear followed by a Mack's Double Whammy in ppink and silver witha piece of nightcrawler on the first hook.
Those are some of my favorites for the bows.
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Charley has got the ticket on the Panther Martins and Rapalas for the waters around Yellowstone Park. Before my kid took up flyfishing he swore by these in various color combinations. He consistently caught larger numbers and bigger rainbows, cuthroats, and cutbows than I did on flies.
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I'm assuming that you're talking about spinning gear....
In stillwater situations, it's tough to beat a Panther Martin in size #1 or 2. I like a bronze blade and body on bright days and a silver blade and body on cloudy days. (Cloudy days are generally better, regardless.) I like a dressed hook, but I can't honestly say that it matters to the trout.
For moving water, I like Mepps Aglia spinners in size #1. The same as the PM's, I recommend brighter colors on cloudy days, and vice versa. Even a temporary cloud cover can matter, as I've gone from no bites to a bite on every cast when clouds rolled overhead. Also, like the PM's, I like a dressed tail. I prefer gray squirrel for the silver spinners and red squirrel for the bronze.
I've had luck also with the smaller Rapalas. For stillwater, I'd recommend floating (add split shot about 2-3' higher, if needed), but you'll probably need the coundowns for moving water to get down deep enough. I don't know that color matters that much, but I still match colors to cloud conditions.
I don't know if you ever fish small pocket water types of places, but if you do, it's a great place to use flies on a long spinning rod, like the Shakespeare Crappie Stick. If you tie a jig at the end of the line, you can put a nymph or two above it and lob it upstream of any little holes where trout would hang out, then let the stream bring it into the little holes, and keep enough tension on the line to feel a strike and/or guide it along. It's basically the same thing as Czech nymphing on a fly rod, except much easier and cheaper; it works. Get a black crappie jig on the bottom--I like the Lindy walleye jigs with plastic bodies and marabou tails--that's heavy enough to reach bottom, but no bigger than 1/8oz. It can look like a leech or a stonefly; whatever it is, it works. Put a couple nymphs above it, spaced about 10-18". I'd use nymphs that look like whatever is in the stream, but a Hare's Ear size #14 and a Pheasant Tail size #18 will cover a lot of the nymphs found in most streams. If the water has crayfish, I'd switch out the black jig for something brown and orange.
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