Do you have a tackle box full of spoon lures? Lets figure out why it is a great lure

Spoon style lures are called so because the body of the lure resembles the utensil. You know like the one you eat your soup with. They typically have a pattern painted on the convex side of the lure. The concave side of the lure is usually unpainted and shiny.

A lure attracts sport fish by reflecting light and color to imitate a wounded bait fish. The lure wobbles and darts erratically through the water and creates an attractive looking easy target for the fish to attack.

There are many different styles made and hundreds of manufacturers make them. Len Thompson spoons are probably the most famous of all. I have caught many trophy pike on these lures; they are the simplest lure to fish and work great for predatory game fish.

Some are designed to be cast and some to be trolled. Trolling spoons have a lighter and longer body; casting styles have a shorter heavier body. I use both styles for casting and trolling.

As with most other lures, color selection and patterns are almost endless. And you never know what color will be a sure bet to catch fish. Some of the gaudiest lures that you would never think would catch a fish are the most productive lures that I own.

I often remove the treble hooks and put a single hook in its place. I do this when I am going to be fishing weed beds or heavier weed cover. A big old treble hook its hard to get through even light weeds but with a single hook on there I can fish much heavier cover.

One other thing that I do to increase the hookups I get on spoons is to take the hook off and place it in my fly tying vise. I then tie on some bucktail or marabou in a similar color to the hook body and put the hook back on. Generally hookups increase greatly when I do this.

When retrieving the lure you can simply reel it in or you can real fast, real slow, or do a stop and go retrieve. Don’t cast a lure once or twice and put it away. Always vary your retrieve cast after cast until you have no more twists to put on it. Often it is just a subtle change in presentation that can make a huge difference.

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