Spooning techniques?

[MartyMar]

How do you use your spoon? Deadstick? drag it on the bottom? Up and let if fall down a few feet? Also do you add anything to the spoon? like a grub?

[firefightn15]

For me, a slow steady retrieve with intermittent pauses.  I've tried trailers, but when I used to use them regularly, never realy noticed a difference in catch rate.  Years ago up on the Winnepeg any presentation was enough for the northern.

[Jig Man]

I only use jigging spoons.  I jig them vertically over structure and cover and I fan cast them and let them sink with twitches.  If they make it to the bottom without strikes, I hop them back to the boat and make another cast.

[MartyMar]

So ..spoons are probably used mostly offshore on a boat over structure...not shoreline?

[roadwarrior]

So ..spoons are probably used mostly offshore on a boat over structure...not shoreline?

Treble hook lures in general are difficult to fish from shore, spoons

are impossible. With a boat and lure retriever, most lures can be

recovered, but not from the bank.

8-)

[SirSnookalot]

I freshwater fish exclusively from shore and I use spoons quite a bit.  I do prefer using them with a siwash hook only because of the way I hook up the fish but you have more fish slipping the hook than with a treble.  I see zero difference in the effectiveness of the spoon itself.  Try and keep your rod tip up a bit as you approach the shoreline, this will help to eliminate hangups.  As far as what spoon, imo nothing beats a mepps, stays under the water better than most, try the 8 gram.

[Redhed]

well since they can be finicky and fragile, you slide up next to her, gently, to where her back is infront of your chest. gently place your arm around her. remember not to bear hug bc that species is a delicate one (unless you have one of those wild ones that no one can tame) but give it a gentle sqeeze and relax. after that you are on your own............................................. oh fishing, ok i cant help you

[MartyMar]

yea so u like my title "Spooning techniques" haha....yea i did that on purpose..I was just waiting for somenoe to say something about that. haha

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Spooning techniques is kind of a broad question unless of course you are looking for a variety of answers for different methods.

Weedless spoons such as the Johnson silver minnow for example are can be absolutely deadly dragged through and over top of vegetation, brush,and lily pads.Stopping the retrieve and allowed to fall into holes.Generally using 3-4 inch grubs or pork frogs as trailers.The fish can show a particular preference for different trailers and colors on certain days.

  This technique can also be employed with pitching and flipping sparse cover pockets in trees,timber,brush, and hydrilla for a different look from a texas rigged plastic or jig. It's old school

[CRFisher]

Can't really jig a spoon from shore, unless you're fishing off a bridge or dock potentially.  

The silver minnow mentioned above can be fished like a buzzfrog with a double tailed grub, or more like a spoon on a slower retrieve.  Since it's weedless it may be the one spoon you could also fish like a jig, but have never tried it.

I've had some luck with casting spoons in order to reach area's I couldn't reach otherwise.  Typically these stay up in the water column on a medium or fast retrieve, but you can pause and let it fall for a jigging spoon type of presentation where you think you'll be snag free.  I had luck with using the back end of a tube as a trailer on the treble hooks as well.  They seemed to work best late summer and fall for me.

[Jig Thrower]

look in the latest issue of bassmaster there was an article about spoons