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Rainbow trout · TroutDeep

Bob Church's white-marabou fry lure with a mixed green-and-orange throat hackle — a mobile, pale baitfish profile built for the autumn fry feast. One of the great English reservoir patterns.

Fish this when

September and October when trout are herding perch and roach fry against dam walls and weed beds. Cast into the carnage and strip it like a fleeing fish.

Why it works

The marabou wing breathes and collapses on the pause to match a small fish's flank, and the pale profile reads as a fry against open water.

Naturals it imitates