WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TROUT LURE?

[happyfriggincamper]

Gold size 2 Blue Fox vibrax

[benders]

Tassie devil. Long cast and huge variety of colours.

[Sinsemilla]

I'd have to agree with Truedogz on Strike tiger plastics. The bug type plastics and the T-tails in black and gold have caught me plenty of trout here in Vic and in the Snowy mountains. Also the Ecogear MX48 is my go to hard body in the natural colors.

Cheers, Anth

[Wolly Bugger]

Celta
Flatfish
Rapala
Tassie Devils

[Paulanderson]

Another interesting lure from the past was the Devon - even with a keel on the line a major problem was line

twist. They were a good small stream lure though and came in floating and sinking versions.

[Truedogz]

Paul, you can still get devon spinners. Yep, they are buggers for line twist. They were sold as pairs by some manufacturers as left and right hand spin. You swapped them over after a while to reverse the line twist.

My dad and uncle used to cover their devon spinners with eel skin and I've heard other old timers talk about this trick being effective. Later, plastic coated devons appeared and I still use them occasionally:

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Other spinners like celta are pretty good at twisting line unless a keel is used and even then it doesn't seem to completely stop it.

It is easy to get sentimental about old lures and some of the new lures are better than the old ones. For example, the blue fox spinners are better than celtas. I'd still rate the old Mitchell double bladed spinner as the best trout spinner of all time.

For most of the old lures there are modern equivalents available. The big exception is the floppy - there is nothing like it around today.

Best Wishes

Truedogz

[ben475]

great to see some of the old lures as favourites.

[ducky]

Strike pro baby arch back in deep red in tiny 1m wide - 20cm deep stuff upgraded with super light and sticky hooks

Lucky craft slender pointer 67MR in brown trout for in medium streams

Daiwa double clutch 75 black gold in deep fast running rivers

Daiwa td minnow 95 and 120 for lakes where decent casting is required
Also in lakes 4” or 5” flash j shads or keitech easy shiners with 3/0-4/0 hooks in 1/4-3/8oz weights for casting big plastics as far as you can.

Keen to troll some big double clutch 95 black golds around some lakes for trout when I get a chance.

[mazman]

For small streams to medium rivers daiwa DR minnow joint is my go to
and for just about everything else zman slim swims have done the damage for me

[meppstas]

Mepps Aglia & Black Fury lures are my favorites (as if you guys wouldn't know ) this season will be my 55th year of using them, each season 90-95% of the trout I catch are taken on them.. the other 5-10% are taken on small hard body lures..

cheers
Adrian

My supply of #00 Mepps lures

Mepps #0 & #1 lures.

A few new Mepps #0 XD lures I'm going to try out this season..