By far my favorite inline spinner... Great for trout and panfish... My go to, right alongside Thomas buoyants...

I like em so much i just bought 200 of them....

Anyone else use these?

Nope. Use mostly plastic worms - or the real thing for trout.

Used them when I was a kid to moderate success. Rooster tails were good... kastmaster... etc.

For trout I have found power bait and super dupers work well.

I use mostly Rapalas both floating and sinking on trout and small mouth bass in the wilderness streams I fish. Have used Panther Martens and Rooster Tails but nothing beats top water action when they are hitting it.

I throw spinners for shad for a couple weeks a year....the shad don't much care if they're Mepps, Panther Martin, or Chinese ebay specials. And for a week in Canada, I take custom bucktails. I just don't get on water with trout very often any more.

Mepps, rooster tails, and those Chinese spinners all have some major design issues that make them non-options for me...

The weight to size ratio for one... Lots of the trout areas I fish need a micro presentation, and none of those spinners pack enough casting weight in their micro sizes...

The much more glaring issue to me is the blade... On the aforementioned lures, the blade is attached to a clevis that revolves around the shaft.... As anyone who's thrown one of these lures for any period of time knows, the clevis is notorious for locking up, twisting the blade up around the line, etc...

Panther Martin utilizes a patented shaft-through-blade system that ensures the blade spins no matter what...

Definitely can't argue a man out of using a rapala! That's definitely one of the best ways to catch trout...

When I know bigger ones are lurking i like the countdown series...

I do use small panther martins in steams sometimes. But primarily worms, worms with a corky, eggs or power bait depending upon them being hatchery or not.

Power bait fishing is my first love...

Here in California we can purchase a second pole stamp, so the norm is to soak one line and cast a lure with the other... And if the lures aren't working you switch to 2 power bait lines...

Here in Oregon we use kids under 12 who don’t require anything for a second line.

I got two of them, they each get 2 lines, and it lasts til they're 16!

Just fish in the ocean and use as many as ya want.

Or Texas...…...just do not exceed 100 hooks

RAPALA's are great for any freshwater fishing !!!

I love the original "C.P. SWINGS" spinners made in FRANCE from the 40's? 50's & 60-70's....
They came in multiple sizes and always worked great on trout, small mouth, crappie and walleye.

About twenty yrs ago...I was buying from the $1.00 man with the jobber van on the upper part of willIAMS Grove flea mkt NEAR DILLSBURG PA OFF RT. 15...everybody knows this guy...a fixture for decades...
I bought 4 small clear plastic (4 & 6 bay/ totally clouded lure boxes) jam packed with about 125-150 C.P. SWINGS...
SHOWED HIM THE BOXES HE SAID $5.00 BUCKS...
HE KNEW WHAT WAS IN THEM AND DIDN'T CARE...
THAT GUY BUY BOX LOTS ALL WEEK...barely chks them...
Sells everything for 1-5 bucks...he makes 1,500 to 3,000 +++
Almost every Sunday since 1990...do the math...
TAKE 125 X $3-4 BUCKS EACH...GREAT DEAL.