Sport Fishing USA — January 2018

22 JANUARY 2018

Fundamentally similar in

design over decades, weedless

spoons remain popular for

many game fish that inhabit

areas of heavy cover.

GEAR GUIDE

TOSH BROWN / TOSHBROWN.COM

BY LENNY RUDOW / JANUARY 2018 / VOL 33 — ISSUE 1

Try a Google search for “world’s best fi shing lures” and you’ll get well over 3 million hits — but virtually all of them

have one commonality: Almost every article or blog written about the greatest lures of all time includes the sim-

ple, time-tested spoon. Just how long spoons have been around is a matter of debate, but other than the addition

of a weed guard, few technological advancements have been added to the spoon in the past 1,000 or so years. That’s

because more tech hasn’t been needed — because the simplest weedless spoons catch fi sh, period.

A well-designed weedless spoon can be cast a country mile; it will wobble through the water with grace and

appeal, and attract strikes from virtually every game fi sh on the face of the planet. It won’t grab at the grass, rarely

snags and doesn’t require you to get a doctorate to create a fi sh-enticing fl ash and wiggle.

COMPARE SEVEN METALLURGIC MARVELS DESIGNED

TO WOBBLE THEIR WAY TO STRIKES IN THE SHALLOWS

WEEDLESS SPOONS

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