On my recent steel-head/brook trout fishing/camping trip, I was tossing steel-head sized spinners all day.
I caught some nice fish, but between the steel head, I was catching 10-12" Rainbows almost every cast.
Some could barely get the hooks in their mouths but that didn't stop them from trying

I have to think color/presentation had a lot to do with that?

I mentioned before about Neversnag hooks.
Basically a stainless steel spring hook guard. They make single hooks and their treble hooks are just 2 hooks that ride point up when retrieved.

In hours of casting in fast moving water that was a combo of sand/rock and various sunken logs/debris, I only lost one lure and that was to a tree limb across the river about 20 ft up

I'm convinced they work and will change over all my lures to them. At the price of quality lures, you don't want to lose any to snags if you can avoid them.

ive never been a fan of the weedless type spring/wire/rubber/plastic hooks. ive always been afraid that in order for you to hook a fish solid you cant have anything in the way of the hook and in order for it to be weedless/snagless youd have to sacrifice hooking some fish. i dont really lose many lures because i run 20lb test braided line(i tried suffix 832 and its amazing!!). i can usually straighten out he hooks or they will pull through the rotten timber.

the only weedless type modifications i do are when using rubber worms and dipping the hook point back into the rubber, but with the extra wide gap worm hooks its ready to catch fish in an instant.

Jaximus,

I can't say for certain if I lost hook-ups using those NeverSnag hooks. I guess you'd have to have a underwater camera hook-up and do a side -by-side comparison to know.

All I know is that from nice sized Steel head to 10-12" rainbows, once on they never got off.
I take all the barbs of of my hooks and even then, unless I gave them slack so they could twist free, I had know problem.

They make a sampler pack with everything from pan fish sized single hooks to big double ones.
Would make a great X-mas stocking stuffer to try them out

I was fishing #11 Tectan mono on a 10' cheap Whuppin Stik rod from Cabelas and big or small it worked great. Can't beat that for sale price of $22 and free shipping.

most of my breaks and lunches at work revolve around reading this site and walleye central. i found this very interesting article that fits into this convo.

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Every LT I've ever caught was on a spinner.
I stumbled upon these and like them a lot.
There Spring Frog Pattern is killer in early spring when the Lakers are in shallow.

Heavier weight spinners work well when the water heats up.
Rig them with those Never-Snag Hooks I'm high on, and you have a great set-up for casting/trolling any species.

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