Trout trifecta in PA

[Doug Vitale]

Originally Posted by thmyorke1

Awesome, you put good work into that spoon. How shallow were the waters and how do you work the spoon in such water?

Shallow water and spoons don't go well together. I try to use spoons in high, fast water. Stand upstream from the spot where you want to present the spoon. Cast the spoon toward 12:00 and let it settle; the current will pick it up and it will start wobbling downstream. When the spoon reaches 9:00 or 3:00, retrieve slowly. Be careful not to cast too far upstream if you use this technique otherwise the current will push the spoon down to the bottom and will greatly increase the chance of the lure getting hung up. Try to use at least a 1/6 oz. spoon which will get down deep and tease the fish that are not in the mood to rise to the surface to bite.

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Here's a photo of a wild brook trout I caught in the same stream in 2014. I would put it at 1.5 lbs. easy. He was safely released, but unfortunately I wasn't able to hook into him again in my subsequent two trips. Hopefully he's still swimming out there somewhere.