Rooster Tails

[redsox3624]

http://www.basspro.com/servlet/catal...rTarget=browse (i use the 35th color)
incase you didn't know what they were.
i have used them with great success. i have caught my biggest smallmouth ever with one(4lbs), many largemouths, two kinds of sunfish, white and yellow perch, and chain pickerel. i have never seen anyone on tv use them or heard of anyone else using them but they work great for me. has anyone else ever used them? if so how was your suscess?

[jerseyhunter]

I've caught Bass, Perch and Trout with them.

[mdrbowler99]

I use one color only for trout and I catch fish when nobody else can.I can't wait until April 1st to get out again.

[redsox3624]

what kind or trout are you guys catching? and how big? i can't find that big of trout here in southern maine.

[Champlain Islander]

Wow this post takes me back. Rooster tails have been around for a long time. When I was younger I used the 19 color as one of my favorite lures for bass, pike and even large pan fish. I would go buy 5 or 10 of them at the beginning of the summer and fish them until I lost them all. I fished them with ultra lite spinning tackle and 4 pound test so the pike had a habit of sawing me off. Never tried it for trout but just about every pond or lake fish loved them.

[redsox3624]

i like using 8 pound line. when i fish for pickerel u use a steel leader about 3 inches long. i lost 3 to pickerel one day and i learned my lesson. since i started ising the leader i've had a lot more luck.

[Champlain Islander]

yup I know what you are talking about redsox. I always use either a steel leader or the newer nylon leader when I am targeting pickeral or northerns. Unfortunately I catch most of them when I am set up ultra lite for other species.

[redsox3624]

last year i went out and bought a brand new one and went to teh lake. tied it on without and leader. first cast i say a pickerel grab it and i never got it back. i said some bad words there. i liek using teh 1/8 ounce one but it is a little light for casting so put one of thoes clip weight son it and the thing cast nice. what size do you use, 1/6?

[Champlain Islander]

I go with 1/8 oz size and no problem casting with 4 pound test and an ultra lite 6' rod. If it is windy and I need more weight I put a size 7 split shot about 1 foot higher on the line. Helps to use either a snap or a barrel swivel to eliminate line twist.

[mdrbowler99]

I usually catch browns that are stocked ,but I throw most of them back.I catch 15-16 inchers regularly.I also use them for rainbows and caught a nice 18 incher in some water that was chocolate milk and nobody caught anything else all day.I am a diehard steelhead fisherman and I rarely get skunked.I didn't get out last fall due to knee surgery and I missed it.I have done that on opening day of deer season as my leg makes it hard to do anything at all.I don't walk very far from a bridge and the guys are just amazed at how I catch them stockers with my 3 1/2 ft. pole and 4 lb test line and my rooster tails.I am know as the spinner guy.Most people use salted minnows and worms but I catch bigger fish with my rooster tails.