I once caught a modest 12" rainbow trout in the Mad River in VT using a giant Red Devil spoon type lure using my surf casting rod/reel. basically by knowing where the trout was hunkering down & I just kept annoying the heck out of it, until it bit. that was a good breakfast. my buddy cooked it cuz had had done so before. but it really annoyed my buddy cuz he was gonna show me how it was done with his regular tried & true routine at that fishing spot but he caught nothing that morning. we kinda went for the fish