In my experience, it's a 3/4 ounce blue-and-chrome rat-l-trap. When I fish with my older brother, who's an expert with a red-and-white spoon, he always switches when I start out-catching him.
You can cast 'em a mile, let 'em sink (on a tight line, sometimes fish hit on the drop) and then reel 'em in as fast as you can. If you hit weeds, you can usually jerk them off.
I was motoring upstream on the English River in Canada at dusk and trolling a rat-l-trap so fast that when a little pike hit, all I reeled in was its jaw. (That mighta been a little TOO fast, but that was trolling, not reeling.)
Call me old fashioned, but I can still catch a lot of pike on the old red and white DareDevil. In fact, it is one of the lures I will not forget when up in the BWCA... for walleye and pike.
My fav is a little cleo spoon it's a little heavier than a daredevil, and you can cast it a mile. I think my most used one is blue and chrome pin stripped with teeth marks.
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. ~ Chuck Clark
