Went fishing Friday!
This 16" Brown Trout came from the Kibler Valley section of Dan River in Patrick County, Virginia, U. S. A!
I caught it on a Full Metal Minnow Fishing Lure I designed and made. Notice the lure was still in the trout's mouth when I took the picture.
This Full Metal Minnow style is based on the .22LR case.
I originally intended that lure as a drifter that would mimic a piece of the hatchery food that stocked trout eat in the concrete ponds they are raised in. But I'm finding that it works better as a minnow imitation when I supply the swimming action with rod tip movements and retrieval speed variations.
The only bad part is this lure is so light weight that casting distance is very limited. I won't use any weights with it because that would change the action and the feel. The cast length limitation isn't bad enough to make me change anything. I'll just keep catching fish with it...