Favorite Trout Lure.

[*Hank]

What's everyone's favorite trout lure? Mine is a daredevil spoon red&white 1/4Oz.

[*Hank]

Edit: favorite lure/rig.

[Sea NaCl]

Fly fishing is the only way I have ever caught trout... I do not live near heavily trout populated waters (except saltwater lol) so I don't have any time to experiment with many different techniques or lures with trout. Anyways my favorite fly for trout is definitely a floating fly or nymph.

[Angry John]

1.0 kvd bluegill square bill.

[Bluebasser86]

1/8oz little cleo, micro jig under a bobber, 1/16oz chatterbait, Ned rig.

[James Pondscum]

Little jake spoons .The clearer the water the better the hits. Use gold , silver and black. Seems like the fish that hit on these tend to get more airborne then some other lures. They seem to hit on the drop so I make pauses on my retrieve. They are my favorite trout lure now.

[*Hank]

1/8oz little cleo, micro jig under a bobber, 1/16oz chatterbait, Ned rig.

What color Ned rig?

[OntarioFishingGuy]

#0/#00 mepps spinners. I also love fly fishing, so my favorite fly would be a stonefly nymph, zug bug or Walt's worm. I also love swinging a peacock and partridge wet fly.

[Bluebasser86]

What color Ned rig?

Doesn't really matter. I did well with California Craw this year. Bubblegum and PB&J were good last year.

[Rob96]

This year I have been doing best with jointed Rapala's and Rebels.

[tomustang]

Pointer 65's and xraps

[CeeJay]

Trout seem to have an aversion to me

There's a lake I used to fish frequently when I lived in Virginia.  My PB largemouth (5 lbs) and bluegill (1.3 lbs) were caught there.

Anyway, every October they would stock it with trout.  Tons of people looking to fill their freezers and fridges would show up when the trout were dumped in.  And they all seemed to do quite well...mostly on Berkley trout dough baits, but also some small spoons and inline spinners. 

 

Well I caught exactly zero trout tossing my Kastmasters, Cleos, and numerous inlines.  So I became slightly annoyed, said to heck with it, tied on a spinnerbait and caught some bass instead

It was frustrating though, I really wanted to catch a trout because I'd never caught one.

Hopefully my luck will change when I move to Colorado in a few months.

[DevinFishing29]

When I am fishing in creeks I like worms and spinners. I also use the crickhopper in creeks. In Lake superior I fished for trout a couple times. I really liked using the X-rap. Caught a 23 inch rainbow and 15 inch brown trout.

[RB 77]

All time favorite hands down Is the Mepps Aglia! Great for small pond fishing for all species as well.

[fisherrw]

I really like panther martins

[hawkoath]

3/8oz customized Kastmasters. I have chartreuse color reflective tape on the larger side with regular reflective tape on the other. I also make sure to sharpen the hooks and bend them out a little for a much improved hookset

[fish stick]

I been having most of my luck on rooster tails. Tried the panther martin spinners, like them also but no hook ups. Rooster tail for me. I have most hits casting upstream

[Jar11591]

Tiny rooster tail 

[BooyahMan]

As mentioned, rooster tails or any small spinner with a colorado or french blade. 

[CeeJay]

I sometimes wonder if there's any species of fish that inline spinners won't catch.

Great lures and I can't wait to toss some spinners in Colorado this fall....and maybe finally catch a trout

 

For what it's worth I have most of mine rigged with a single hook now, after a particularly gruesome/disturbing incident with a large crappie years ago. 

And changing out the hooks doesn't seem to effect the action of the spinners. 

[Jigfishn10]

1/3 oz Little Cleo caught my first spoon trout last fall. Thanks to the fine folks here, I learned how to fish them correctly.  Had a blast catching trout and bass last fall. Largest bass of the season came on a Cleo.