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.