Likewise, if you live in a part of the country that’s light on wild trout but rife with stocked trout during the spring, chances are good that your state is planting them in ... to throw large lures ...

Winter trout fishing is a funny thing ... a slanted face which deflects water. As these lures drift gently downstream, that deflection makes them quiver, shimmy, and flash ever so slightly.

Though these fish take a back seat to species like bass, trout, and walleye ... Pike teeth can’t slice and dice them, so if you don’t lose your spoon to a snag, you can catch years’ worth of these ...