Category: Tackle

Tackle – Blue Fox

Another one of my favorites for spinner baits is made by Blue Fox. This spinner is called the Vibrax Wild Eye and comes in all kinds of different colors and sizes for whichever trout species you are fishing for. I would like to list the colors and sizes I most commonly use when I’m out …

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Tackle – Blue Fox

  When I’m floating I use a # 3 or a # 4 because this size of spinner has enough weight to make it spin properly when bottom bouncing. When I fish from shore I’ll use a little bigger spinner as I can cast further out into the river. Probably my favorite color pattern is …

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Tackle – Blue Fox

Next I would like to talk about the Blue Fox Vibrax Minnow Spinners or what I like to call my all-time Brown Trout lure. These lures cannot be beaten when it comes to fishing for HUGE trout on the Bow River. Tom. B and I were out on the Bow one mid-summer evening in 2004. …

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Tackle – Blue Fox

I cannot believe how many massive Browns I have caught over the years on this particular color combination. This lure looks like a sucker minnow which are an abundant food source in the Bow River and big Browns seem to annihilate these large minnow imitations. This lure is a body of a minnow with a …

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