spoons

[ryan 772]

i do not know much about fishing with spoons so i was wondering if you guys could tell me some sizes wieghts and colors u use and where to use them

thanks

[Chaz Hickcox]

Figure out what your forage is. If it is golden shiners a gold Kastmaster spoon is good to go, if it is shad or regular shiners then use a silver spoon. This time of year is excellent for spoons. Especially as winter comes closer. Because of the cold, many of the forage fish will begin to die. As they die bass, and other species (especially Crappie), will be under the school of baitfish feeding on the ones that are dying off. This generally will occur over some kind of ledge or deep cover. Use your electronics to identify where this is happening then sit on top of them vertical jigging the spoon. Drop the spoon all the way to the bottom, lift the spoon a few feet while taking up the slack.  Then let the spoon fall until your rod tip hits the water.  You want to keep the slack up as much as possible to be able to feel the strike. Do this until the spoon comes all the way up to the boat, then start the process all over again.

As far as size goes, just use something that matches both the fish you are targeting and the forage in the water. The smaller spoons will catch a whole mess of Crappie, while the larger ones will catch less fish, but more bass.

[ryan 772]

doesnt sound to bad and thankyou very much if any one has any more advice i will take it

[Elite Image Fishing]

Check these tips and tactics out for jigging and swimming spoons. I found these to be helpful when I first started fishing seriously. Just more great info.

http://www.bassresource.com/fish/bass-fishing-tips.html

[RoLo]

LURE:          Johnson Silver Minnow 1/2oz x 2½ Black Nickel      

TRAILER:        Zoom Fat Albert Grub 5.0 Watermelon Seed      

DELIVERY:      Steady medium-speed retrieve that causes the spoon to rock seductively back-&-forth

The Johnson spoon is a Big Bass lure, and although that statement has been done to death,

it's not an exaggeration when applied to the J-spoon.      

Roger

[Carmen J Bernardo]

  Up here in the mid-Atlantic coastal plain, I've found that spoons can be good year-round, especially in some of the smaller clearwater streams coming out of the piedmont.  I've caught both sunfishes and creek smallmouth bass on a micro-spoon rigged with a trailer hook.  There was a local outfitter who'd put these things together using a small longshank hook sodered to a small leaf blade, dressing the trailer with a bit of feather or metallic filament.  They called these "Willies".

  My method is to add a small grub or worm to the trailer hook and that seems to trigger a lot of strikes.  On light tackle, that's a winning combo.

  With the Willie producer switching to a narrower blade, though, I've had to look for replacements.  Hildebandt puts out a shad spoon that's just a bit larger than the bigger Willie, but I can always add the trailer hooks myself if I find one at the right size (usually one or two sizes smaller than the hook attached to the blades).

[SirSnookalot]

I fish spoons a lot, IMO best producing lure there is. Much of the time I replace the treble with a siwash hook, just preference and my favorite are mepps spoons.

If you perfer a single larger hook, Johnsons are excellent along with Huntington Drone or Clark spoons.

[RoLo]

I fish spoons a lot, IMO best producing lure there is. Much of the time I replace the treble with a siwash hook, just preference and my favorite are mepps spoons.

If you perfer a single larger hook, Johnsons are excellent along with Huntington Drone or Clark spoons.

"Clark Spoons" Geez, that takes me back...I can almost taste the brine.

Off the Jersey coast, the No.3 Clark spoon was numero uno for Atlantic bonito and little tunny (false albacore).

We used a trolling speed that created the most white water, put one spoon on the front of the second wave,

and another on the front of the third wave. I'll bet Rhino remembers.

Roger

[Catt]

A few of what I use for both fresh & salt

Cotton Cordell C.C. Spoons, Bomber Slab Spoons, Genuine Dardevle® Spoons, Luhr-Jensen Krocodile Spoons, Johnson Sprite Spoon, & Hopkins Shorty Spoon

[Crappiebasser]

I use 1/2 oz Cabelas Real Image in glow color with a white feathered treble hook. I jig them through bait fish as described above but I also cast them into schoolies with great success.