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Product Review
The Rooster Tail

What’s the best lure of the year?

Of the decade?

Let's take this all the way:

Of all time?

That’s easy.

The Rooster Tail.

That is arguably the best, period.

The Rooster Tail, a spinner from Worden Lures, created by Howard Worden in the 1950s, now produced by Yakima Bait Company, will catch almost any fish.
It works on trout,
largemouth bass,
smallmouth bass,
northern pike, chain
pickerel, panfish, salmon,
steelheads and more.

A version is even made
for striped bass.

The lure can be fished in
lakes, ponds, rivers and streams.

Rooster Tails are available in 10 sizes
and more than 100 colors.

Different versions are available
with different body shapes, colors,
materials and sizes that impart
different actions and looks.

Some of the unique ones, for instance,
are the Vibric Rooster Tail and the
Sonic Rooster Tail, each with a unique
blade that produces a different noise.

For more information, visit the
Yakima Bait Company’s web site.


A Rooster Tail
for striped bass.