I found one of my favorite, but hard to find walleye spoons while working at the Dick’s store in Okemos on Monday. The Acme Phoebe is such a go to spoon while chasing walleyes. I first got turned onto it while trying the smaller sizes for crappie in Minnesota back in 2005.
I had been targeting suspended crappie in this small bowl when I noticed some movement on the bottom on my Vexilar screen. I dropped the blue and silver spoon down and started to pop it off the bottom. Next thing that happened was my UL Avid was bent over and after a few minutes up came a nice 17 inch walleye. The color of the fish was incredible for a guy used to see that light green on Erie, just a beautiful almost gold/brown coloring.
Since then I have been hooked on Phoebe’s. The metallic perch has also become a fav color pattern. I have found them also at the Dick’s store in what was Franklin Park, the shopping mall down there. I know it has a new name, but I forget.