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Crayfish style crankbaits(Rebel): 
Left=Florescent shallow diving, 1" (swift, turbid or off color streams, retrieve with sharp jerks) 
Right= natural, deep diving (clear, deep pools, ponds,  and streams with moderate current)
Jigs with soft plastic bodies: 
Left=Crayfish style bodies on 1/16 oz. jigheads (VERY DEADLY-retrieve by bouncing along the bottom with a sharp twitches); Right= Jighead and jig with grub tail body (open or deep water, steady retrieve) 
Note: keep 1/32oz-1/8oz jig heads for a variety of depths and current speeds
Conventional Spinners (in this case-Mepps Roostertails): Shallow water, narrow streams.  Either retieve slow and steady or drift and twitch.  Best for very small streams and very shallow shoals.
Feather Jigs: 
Left: marabou jig (gravel and rock bottom-bounce off bottom); Center: Crappie Jig-deep water, twitch retrieve; Right=wooly work jig-gravel bottom, swift water-twitch retrieve
In-line spinners (Panther Martins here): deeper pols and pockets, moderate to swift current-retrieve slow to moderate 
 
Spoons: Willow leaf style spoon (a Krockodile here): 
deep water, bounce off bottom (jerk-drop-jirk)
Topwater surface plug: (a Zara puppy here) 
Calm, pools and ponds, throw near logs, vegitation, and rock banks, twitch along the surface (twitch-wait-twitch)
Diving crankbaits: Left: Jointed floater-diver (Rebel)-moderate to slow water-retrive with slow retrieve; Right: Sinking-diving (Rapala) swift to moderate current-clear water-retrive slowly
Soft plastic worm: 
a) place a #10 hook midway through the body, drift and twitch in swift current, b) rig with a jig head to hook through the tip, bounce along the bottom in slow current
Finesse/Twichbait (bass assassin)-slow to moderate current-twitch retrive
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Nymphs: Drift through gravel bars, shoals 
 
Dry flies/sub surface flies: Drift or slightly twitch (look for a hatch or for surface hitting fish) Left=wooly worm, middle addams and mosquito, right-dry)
Sub-surface fly-drift
Streamers: 
Retrieve with stripping action 
Poppers: 'pop' on the surface in calm water
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