A strange thing about some of the commercial trolling gear is that the hot commercial gear isn't all that hot when sport fished. I tend to think that it has something to do with the quantity of gear in the water. Some gear works well when "schooled" together. It also depends on the bite. Gear that is easy to get and keep decent action with will get a lot of fish when the bit is on. Those are probably the lures that don't work so well sport fishing. When I was scratch fishing I threw in more finicky but effective gear ,like spinner cut herring behind a dodger or flasher for example. When the bite was on the spoons and plugs came out because you could run through the gear faster and stack a lot of fish. I didn't know any trollers that ran those Superior spoons in WA. Kind of like the Pixie spoons that are used a lot in Alaska but don't seem to work very well down here. Disclaimer: I was trolling back in the 70's&80's and keeping up with what the hot gear seemed to change on a seemly daily basis.
Lo and behold, stuff that works... well... WORKS! The same silly fish caught by the SE-AK trollers eventually find their way to home waters.. and guess what... they still bite the same silly spoons!
And just so no one thinks it was a fluke, they bit my hangback hooch version of that 50/50 brass/copper Superior Spoon over and over again. Kings, silvers, and pinks... NONE were shy about grabbing the goods over the weekend.
DAD... do I really have to pose ONE MORE?
KUDOS to BathTubBob for adding another killer addition to my collection of bent metal. You'da'man, Bob!
