Timberman I'm honestly not trying to kiss bill's ass, but you should get his spoon fishing book. I caught a fish on a spoon a week or two ago. It was on a blue fox gold/orange stripe 1/2oz spoon. On my first cast in the tailout it just started to throb when an 8lb chromer hen nailed it. My friend had never fished for steelhead in his life and caught 2 on his first trip. They were caught on a red/white daredevil spoon; the cheap $1.37 ones. I've only been out fishing a couple of times so far this year, but I've been fishing a spoon quite a bit. You might want to try a jigging technique. I've fish over dollies with a normal swing technique and wasn't getting any fish until I started jigging. That's how my friend got his 2 fish. And of course after he catches 2 fish on a spoon I'm going, "no, no this shrimp is the way to go," and I went home without catching a steelie. I did catch a silver that was at least 16lbs, but that was after switching to a spoon.

Forgot to mention that my favorite spoon is a silver or gold little cleo. Like ltlcleo mentioned above they are expensive, but I just like them. Wish there was a cheap imitation little cleo.....

~ Dr Pepper