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Among the deep-running lures are the spoons, wobblers, weighted lures, plugs and the heavier spinners. The wide Colorado blade will put rainbow, cutthroat and land-locked salmon consistently on the end of your line, and this blade will also spell the demise of many a bass, pike and perch. Most large fresh-water lunkers go for wobblers in a big way, and I have found that some of the Norwegian and Swiss wobblers with red stripes or red and black dots deliver. On one memorable trip, my deep-working Abalone Killer performed miracles in fish seduction. Flatfish, which are in the same league, will frequently give a good account, but how I detest that array of fouling hooks. Weighted flies, with lead wound around the hook's shank under the body dressing, or the more recently invented head-weighted streamer-tailed optics give good action and produce well. Streamers and bass-sized wet flies should also be in the spinman's kit. For consistent fish taking lures, my vote goes to the wobbling spoons. Their fluttering, wobbling, dive-and-dart action makes them universal attractors and deceivers. But besides the heavy type of spinning and wobbling lures, carry some thin-bladed spoons for medium-depth water and have some really heavy blades to cut through swift or fast-flowing water and to get down to the bottom.
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