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We have all had many spoons recommended to use and we get them only to find out the info was nothing but a load of smelly dog rockets. Just trying to keep you from catching a fish I guess.
Well for the benefit of the newbies and the still a little green, what spoons do you guys recommend to stay far away from. For me it was a bunch of Flintstone brand spoons a mail order bait shop sold me when I took up the sport. Another stinker for me was a Stinger Screwball. Looks good but I batted a zero with it.

Caramel dolphin just on my boat won't catch anything. Everytime I hop on Jeff's boat its basically never coming off a rod somewhere. Lol

Haha true story.

All I can say Don, is use spoons you are confident in. Try others when you can. I cant say there is anything specific I stay away from.

I remember another Dreamweaver I bought that couldn't catch the bottom was a mag Sportsman's. Saturn green and flo yellow spoon with a tape band diagonally across, it is a great looking spoon. Bought 2 of them early on because they were 3 bucks apiece. I might has well flushed 6 dollars down the toilet, never had a rod shake running them. I also have a few that are cursed enough to have only taken 1 or 2 fish. Most of us probably have the same issue there also.

Funny the screwball was one lure that the bait shop recommend to us last Friday. That and one other they recommended got majority of our hits. Not sure what makes it work for one and not another. I also have had luck with the Caramel Dolphin. WonderBread was good for me 2 years ago but last year it didnt do much.

For whatever reason the famed Mixed Veggie doesn’t work on my boat. Lol

Baron2150 wrote:

For whatever reason the famed Mixed Veggie doesn’t work on my boat. Lol

Always one of my top spoons. Stinger brand. Most of my other spoons are silver streaks. Love those spoons.

It is crazy how some baits work for some guys and not for others. Carmel dolphin and mixed veggie are some of my top producers. I truly believe if you match the colors of the spoons with the color spectrum as light penetrates the water you my find spoons that did work before start to work. Water clarity sunlight plankton and I am sure many others factor when a spoon colors gray out or turn black. There are a ton of good articles that talk about this. Brother nature wrote a good article about it a couple of years ago too. When setting up your spread you want everything to work together to bring fish in. You are not dragging 6,9, or 12 baits. One bait can durasticaly change the outcome of your days catch for better and for worse.

Ed,
I am going to go with "you are pretty spot on".

On my boat lately, it’s been whatever rig just got hit. No use resetting a line without changing the lure because everything has been one and done. I’ve had a couple spoons and plugs take more than one fish, but only if I had more than one of whatever it was out. I try to start out with a plan the adapt to what the fish seem to want and what conditions seem to dictate. I’m pretty sure there’s a spoon that works from ice out to ice up, gin clear to chocolate milk, 1.2-4.3mph on all rigs in all depths, unfortunately the one company that made it went bankrupt 30yrs ago.