running 4lb test fishing for trout in really clear water and i notice a bass so i threw a skinny gold crankbait(someone gave me for chrsitmas like 15 years ago and i never touched it) thinking what the hell maybe it will go for it. Then i notice a trout about 25 ft away coming towards it. It hunts it down and hits it hard. some guy on the dock was saying it was like a 6lb trout and they been watching it swim around the dock all morning... i think it was more like 3lb but I do know my medium light pole was really bent
anyhow fighting for a min then it shook my hook. i guess i didnt set it hard enough. which i am noob at with this light line going for trout.
anyhow even tho i didnt land the fish this was my first experience with a crankbait and actually seeing the fish hit it... all the people on the dock were watching and i got a lot of yaaayyys and aaawwwws when i lost it.
Very exciting and i will be trying more crankbaits next week.