went out to pine again today to do some more testing on these home made spinners. It was raining, got there about 7:30. I headed out to deep water and started trolling a ford fender at 20 ft with my green/ white spinner. It's a cross between a rooster tail and a wedding ring. got about 50 feet and hooked up. with all the extra weight/ drag on the line I didn't even know I had hooked a nice 13 - 14" rainbow. brought him up to the raft and as soon as I went to grab him he shook his head and snapped my 4lb test. If you find a nice sized fish with glass beads in it's belly and a hook in its mouth... well now you know. I laughed it off and tried red and silver, caught a little 8". Trolled slow in a zig zag formation. Ran out of sunlight and left with some good knowledge about color combos and the way the lures acted. I'm on the hunt for those browns...

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