Spoon Fed Bass

​​Spoon Feeding Fish
By: Dewayne French
          Spoons have been around the fishing world since the early days of fishing.  They really come into their own this time of the year when the water gets hot and the fish get into their deep patterns. They are made to imitate a dying shad or minnow that is sinking in the water column. They are made from little to big and attract all sizes and species of fish. The smaller ones can be used for bluegill to trout and the larger ones are for bass to striped bass. Spoons catch fish from a fast moving river to a deep lake.
          Spoons are meant to be jigged up and down, if the water is deep enough for you to position your boat over a school of fish you have located. If the water isn't as deep you can cast and retrieve the spoon with a upsweep of the fishing rod followed by allowing the spoon to flutter back to the bottom. Most fish will strike the spoon on the fall and you may not even feel the bite untill you pull the rod back up to let the lure fall again.
          Spoons are mostly lead with a painted color to resemble your most abundant forage in your area. Some spoons are made to resemble the big shad that are in your area. While others are made to be cast a long way from the boat to avoid spooking the fish. Trout spoons are made to resemble a small minnow that is spooked and the trout strike it by reaction. In a lake I like to find a group of fish with my elecrtronics and postion the boat over the top of them so I can watch my bait  fall into them and I can watch how the fish react to it. They may want a large hop, a small hop, or even a small twitch as I pull the bait back in.
          Spoons have won a lot of summertime tournaments and made many a family fish fry. I have used spoons for many years and caught bass, crappie, bluegill, catfish, and striped bass on them.  My favorite size is a 3/4 oz chrome or white color of a slab spoon that measures about 3 inches. It can be cast a very long way to help catch schooling fish. I also use it to drop to fish that I find with my electronics. When I'm bass fishing I use a 7 foot Favorite Rush rod with a Soleus XCS baitcaster reel spooled 12  lb fluorocarbon.  When I'm after trout or bluegll I use a Favorite Yampa River rod/reel combo spooled with 6 lb  and a small fluorocarbon1/8 oz chome spoon.
           Remember, we all “Live Downstream” so please pick up your trash  and any other trash you see out floating around! Never discard old fishing lines in the river or lake! Wear your life jacket, and tell your family your expected return times, and a general location of where you plan to fish.  
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