Some of our best days are throwing rapalas in teh deep holes.

I was gonna comment on the X-Rap, i just recently found them and now have 4 of them in my trout box for when i spin fish.

We throw rogues here for trout Joe. They work well in the winter time.

I love my rapala and its my go to when the fish aren't biting but in summer time you still cant beat a good spinner

Joe this is right up my ally. I've been using them for a couple years now, but my go to bait is a tiny little pink worm made by powerbait on a tiny 1/16th oz. jig head. It drifts well in fast water, or can be twitched in slack pools.

I also never leave my house without a few of these lures in the box. For the stocked trout, a small gold floating rapala crushes them when spinners or spoons stop working. These lures seem to favor the bigger browns by me which is why I like them so much and some of the hits feel like the the rod is being pulled out of your hands. I've also found that the floating versions work well on stocked lakes and ponds when the fish are rising to a hatch. A lot of guys by me never think to throw these lures but that's ok by me, because its just like you say, they don't know what they're missing.

Mepps!!! A #1 or 2 mepps aglia- dressed in white with either silver or gold blade.
Never fails!

i have never thought to try a stick bait in trout waters but i think i will have to in some of the larger streams I fish in the early spring. There is a rather large hole in the ice in a local lake i fish and i may have to try and run a few of these across it this winter, suppose to hold the large browns the lake has that few people catch. I fish the walleye spawn with these in good tributaries to lake michigan and I think the trout get wary of them in these places and they are the bait of choice of everyone fishing the walleye.

the majority of my 17 inch plus trout have fallen victim to a #3, 5 or 7 rapala in black/gold, either floating or Countdown, depending on water levels. started carrying pins minnos over the years as well, and after reading your article in F&S last year on the new generation of classic lures, I started experimenting with xraps, which have done very well for me this past summer on the Musconetcong and Big Flatbrook. Last thing I need is to clear another space in my vest lure box for a trout magent crankbait, but I must say you have got me thinking about it, Joe.

A couple years ago on a semi-crowded stream when nobody was catching anything, this guy comes walking threw throwing a silverish stickbait and getting hits and catching fish literaly on every cast. After talking with him he said it's all he uses. Since then I have always tried them but only ever had minimal success.

We live around small streams and in the summer we throw Rapala Original Floaters in the small sizes and catch the bigger trout in our stream. And the Spotted Bass also come up out of the lakes into the streams and we catch almost more Bass than we do Trout.