Had a few bumps on that spoon this weekend but alas all they wanted was the trusty old white tube jig. 
I don't think ANYTHING beats the trusty old white tube jig for lakers... but jigging these monsters off the bottom by watching your flasher and seeing them chase your spoon up as you crank up for dear life, watching the big red mark close the distance, watching your line go slack as they push it up faster than you can reel, then feeling the WHAM and having the rod almost ripped out of your hands as they turn and head for bottom with that hook in their mouth is an INCREDIBLE experience. Raw power. Not for the faint of heart. Tubes are my go-to when I'm fishing for the table, but when I've caught my limit and I want to have some fun, or if the lakers turn off the tubes (scent, who knows what, they can be moody some days), or if I want to draw in fish from a distance (those fluttering spoons can drift 20 to 30 feet sideways on the drop in a hundred feet of water), the spoons come out to play...
Check out our new post on the same trout forum for a couple nice lakers taken for the table on a new finesse jigging lure for release this fall. Won't be quite the same rush as ripping a spoon up from a hundred feet, but it'll put fish on ice! We had to blur out the prototypes, but the fish sure are pretty.
