The golden and silver rule for spoons and spinners🇬🇧

When you only have room for two spoon or spinner colors in your tackle box, pick silver and gold. They cover almost every situation. Silver works best on sunny days in clear water. It mimics the flash of baitfish scales and reflects direct sunlight, creating the kind of flicker that triggers predatory instinct in pike, perch, and trout. Gold works best on overcast days and in stained or tea-colored water. Gold reflects available light more efficiently in low-light conditions and stands out better against brownish or greenish water than silver does. Copper is the overlooked third option. In very dark, tannic water (common in forest lakes and bog-fed streams), copper outperforms both silver and gold. It gives a warm, subtle flash that looks natural in water with a brown tint. Bonus trick: if the sun keeps going in and out of clouds, use a lure with both silver and gold sides. That way you are covered no matter what the sky does.