Kastmasters , in 1/2 & 3/4 oz , 1 oz sometimes for stripers up here in N England , silver works good up north , gold a little better down Florida way , simple , effective , and you can buy the pieces and make your own cheaply at that lure parts website , add a buck tail teaser in certain cases and good to go !!!

Exactly Bulldog ! I like them on the coast here as (depending on the oz.) they cast a mile and cover a lot of water , can also cover a good range of depths depending on retrieval , in Florida on the Gulf Beach I fish , I can also cast a great distance to maybe reach some of the species that may not chase into shore , but the lighter weights I can drag over the crest of waves from 20ft and in , the snook tend to react pretty well sometimes . They’ve gotten crazy with colors and such , maybe more to bait the fisherman than the fish (?) but the good ole silvers & golds are always my staples ...

just shot a couple more photos, and thought about sharing the youtube links for the stinger ends
snell knot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPI4rcDi1iE
this is the minimum for short, but it sure came out pretty

crimp loop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMLpMKo9MKI
I have to make these connections under Ott lamp and Magnifier.
Needle-nose vice grips are a boon for handling the hook.
The finished parts are easy enough to hold up to the light and rig.

John, of course they don't name them by glow, silver, purple back, blue back, green flash - they're all given Japanese (place) names.
I can translate a few of these by their color numbers if you see one you want.

Maguro Pro Shop in Croatia is a Great vendor, impossible site to navigate, but they also sell on ebay as worldtackle
They also have the great gram-weight and Dart jigheads.
The trick is they are currently only shipping by DHL for $15, but when I tried a small ebay order, they contacted me (with great English) and I rounded up my order "offline" to cover all those colors, jigheads, and make it worth the shipping cost.

Easy for me to justify $80 worth - I'll be fishing these day and night all winter on salt UL.

The old domestically made Super Duper is one of my most productive lures. Many years ago, I stopped at stream about 100 yards upstream from where it flowed into Lake Superior. I put on a Super Duper on my glass Shakespeare spinning rod. On my first cast a 27" lake run Brown trout hit it and after a strong fight I brought it in. A guy down stream watching me asked, "Were you you using a Mepps Spinner?" "Yea", I lied. He tied on a Mepps and caught the twin of my fish. The joke was on me.

the Kosan Ayu aurora is neat, reflects green, transmits blue and pink
The 04 is the same blue back in my photo just above.
The green flash at the top of the page is #27 WAKASAGI AURORA
my purple-back is #25 LAKE WAKASAGI SILVER

Pete, the tricky part fishing spoons in the river is the current, making spinners much easier.
There's a narrow retrieve rate on spoons that make them flutter instead of spin - if they spin, you're in for a tackle mess.

Is that the reason they invented snap swivels?

As you know by now I like to use vintage tackle. The vast majority of my fishing is with vintage baitcasting tackle. Last year at the NFLCC National I picked up two early brown fiber Phillipson spining rods for next to nothing. Each was 7ft long, the heavier one marked for lures up to 3/8oz and the lighter one was unmarked as to lure weights but was very soft and flexable (my personal preference) I grew up using early 1950's spinning rods like these and always appreciated their ability to deliver a soft cast and in the case of live bait, not to tear a nightcrawler off a fine wire hook. This got me to thinking that I would like to go back and give spinning a try with small, light lures this season. So far it has been fun. The first spinning lure that I can recall catching many fish of different species on was an ABU Reflex that my Dad's cousin gave me around 1954. This bait was later copied by the more famous Shyster. Shown here are some vintage baits I have been experimenting with, with good results.
They are from the top left to right, the first row: Heddon Tiny Chugger, Hoffman Spoon, Shakespeare Baby Popper (a Charles K Fox favorite) and L&S Panfish Master. Second row: Penn Dart Sparky (another Charles K Fox favorite), two South Bend Super Dupers, A Paw Paw Bait Co Lure (which I have forgotten the name of), and the ABU Reflex bait. Third row: (three lures) Tiniest version of the Wright and McGill Mericle Minnow, Phillipson Midget Killer (to give perspective this bait is exactly one inch long) and another great spinner the CP Swing. Forth row: Clark's Little Eddy, F7 Flatfish, a small floating Rapala and a small sized Tony Accetta Pet Spoon.

Great topic!

When spin fishing from my kayak I typically carry three lure types in a few sizes. If spin fishing for trout on streams, the jigs and Rapalas are all I bring.

Hula poppers. Spin or fly fishing for panfish and bass I always start with a popper!

Zig Jigs. These well crafted maribou jigs are what I used when I started fishing the Green River and the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, slamming good for trout. Bass and Panfish too. I tie my own jigs but can’t find the short hooks the Zig Jigs are made with.



Rapala Original Floating. Typically a #5. The number of trout, large panfish and bass caught on this lure is significant! Remove the front treble hook, flatten the barbs or replace the rear hook with a single barbless and you are good to go.

A few random lures get used too!

thread taking off - thanks guys for contributing

Bill - it looks like you're only missing a minno-bug. It was nice to see Charlie Fox's name mentioned, I'm not sure many people today know who he is, I'm guessing you have his book of lures. I hope the fishing in Michigan is better than here.

Tim