Go to lure?

[thefishslayer]

With the threads on the bass forum, lets start one here, what are your guys go to lure(or bait), and then what lure has caught your biggest trout? i will start

Go to bait is green powerbait or silver kastmaster
Caught my biggest on bright green thomas bouyant, 18 incher

[Snapset]

For streams, a small brown roostertail is meat in the pot. For lakes, a frog hotshot or flatfish.

[skeetshtr]

Favorite all time 1/2 silver 1/2 brass Dick Nite trolled way back. 7 1/2 lb. Rainbow. Other favorites are 1/6th oz Blue or rainbow Thomas Bouyant, Needlefish,Cleos and most Rapalas. My tackle box never seems big enough to hold all my favorites.

[Don't fish e nuff]

plain old white Rooster tail.

[de_fishmon]

Roostertail.... black.... slow retrieve with twitching motion

[Doc_Rhen]

Gold Thomas Fightin' Fish. The big ones at haystack a couple years ago liked gold/red either Fightin' Fish or little cleo. Approx 8 'bows between 7 and 10 pounds.

[sweeper]

Rivers - #4 gold Panther Martin - 26" rainbow.

Lakes - Floating Rapala, #7, gold with flourescent red back - 6.5 lb rainbow, 8 lb brown, 5 lb mackinaw (a fluke), 6 lb smallmouth.

[PRINCEMASTER]

Silver and Blue Little Cleo has caught several for me along with a silver with pink dots U20 Flatfish.

[codeman]

obviously its different if were talking trolling from a boat, or throwing iron from the bank. Since almost all of my fishing is from the bank, Id say 1/16 or 1/8 oz panther martins or same sizes of kast masters. Especially in rainbow or brown trout pattern. I like the inline spinners like panther martin over rooster tails and vibrax style lures because you can fish them much slower and therefore deeper because the blade will spin much more easily. i've done quick little tests with all of these lures, and you have to fish the vibrax and rooster tail almost 3 times as fast to make the blade spin vs the panther martin under exactly the same conditions.

[fish-on-bend]

The one and only:

[Klamanite]

BAM

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[Splash]

The ageless staples are:

Rooster Tail- small yellow or medium green.
Flatfish- chrome or frog pattern

My style of fishing has changed with time (age) so the go-to varies, but the above mentioned are timeless.

Bait would be night crawler (hook, no weight), Pautzke red eggs then power bait.

[dinghy]

swap out treble hook for snelled hook and worm. biggest trout I caught was trolling ford fender/wedding ring/worm.

[Eagleclaw]

Chrome Thomas spoon.

[Cannon]

Silver Protroll Trout Killer. Fished above the ball about three foot letting the ball bump the bottom every so often. Caught an 18, a 22 and a 24 inch brown one day doing that. Love catching the big browns cause they wag their heads like a chinook when they fight

[Heckler]

Gold or Copper Kastmaster has by far produced the most fish for me, 2nd place would probably be a blue/silver Little Cleo

[tsorrels]

trolling a size 50 hot shot or casting a size 2 or 3 blue fox

[KD Fisherman]

Blue Fox Vibrax Neon yellow/orange combo

[spottedhawk36]

lake fishing its got to be trolling a frog flatfish

[Code4]

For trolling, frog F-4 Flatfish. Banking, silver blade, black body Roostertail. Largest trout, Rapala 2 piece rainbow trout minnow, 24inch 4.5# out of Timothy Lake.

[Hooked up]

10 lb. Rainbow, Metolius River. Streamer fly & sinking fly line.