If you need to fish it deeper and are casting the spinner you can always attach a shot weight several feet away from it, the further away the more natural it will appear.

If you are trolling you can use a down-rigger to help set the depth. Varying the speed can be very effective as sometimes a trout will strike just as you slow it down.

Soft plastic worms can be deadly it is only in the past decade or so has the use of artificial worms in this way exploded in trout fishing circles.

Worms are available as both scented and unscented. Personally I would always choose the scented as they have definitely proven more successful over the long run.

How to rig a plastic worm for trout fishing is mostly down to the depth you are looking to target. There are numerous different rigging possibilities and each one will have it's strengths and weaknesses.

Although plastic worms for any species are all roughly the same the majority on sale will be suited to bass fishing the most. Trout worms however will be smaller than their bass counterparts and there are specific worms for trout available on the market

If you want to make your own all you need are some pre-made jig heads and the simplest of fly tying techniques and materials.

A lot of trout fishermen however still continue to use spinners and spoons as their main go to lures. Jigs are undoubtedly the most versatile of lures to catch trout with.

Jigs can be fished shallow or deep and fast or slow and are usable year round on pretty much any river or small lake.

Other lures have their action built into them, spinners have their blades, and the shape of spoons determines how they weave through the water.

With a jig however you can tailor the action to mimic what you are trying to imitate whether that's a small olive nymph with something like the Woolly Bugger or an injured minnow using a small soft bodied jig.

Top Pick: The Woolly Bugger 
A Woolly Bugger with enough weight in the head bead can be easily fished on light trout fishing gear.  It is a great nymph imitator and when trout are not keen on taking bait fish type lures anything that represents the other invertebrates that a trout will naturally feed on might just give your fishing the boost it means. These can be used in small streams and rivers by bouncing them off the bottom and letting the current do the rest. A good trout lure to imitate a wide variety of sub aquatic food. 

Spoons can either be trolled in a large lake in deep or shallow water depending on the season or they can also be cast when fishing a stream or river. Undoubtedly spoons are pretty simple, a convex piece of metal with a hook(usually treble) on one end and attached to your line on the other.

You can use silver or golden/copper spoons to great effect or you can choose one of the many artificial looking patterns that can also work really well.

However one brand of trout lure is synonymous with these lures and that is the Rapala, so much so that these lures can sometimes be called Rapala like lures.

The Rapala is probably the all time classic minnow imitator ever designed...

Rapala lures come in several variations and color combinations. There are floating and sinking models and each can be used to great effect in the right water/weather combination.

A Rapala can be cast in a river or stream on light spinning gear or they can be trolled in shallow waters when trout move in on small fry or trolled deep in larger sizes to target big wild trout in large lakes.

All of the above makes the Rapala lure one of the best to have in your tackle box and it can be a great fallback lure when flashier lures fail to produce.

We hope you have enjoyed our introduction to lures for trout. Please feel free to check out our more in-depth guides on each lure for trout fishing.

We have tried to include the best information on each trout lure, how to fish it and a brief overview of the tackle required to fish them correctly.