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I have caught trout off the banjo minnow before. But using bait for trout usually works best for me. Use worms or power bait and that should get you into more trout. If you do want to use a lure for trout I use a #2 blue fox they are a good lure for trout.
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Sometimes you find some dumb Trout that will hit on just about anything. I have caught trout on Bass lures before.
The fish don't necessarily know all the rules that we are trying to abide by although any native species that is big didn't get that size by being dumb.
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i'd say 3 kinds of trout will hit a banjo minnow: Very large rainbows or browns, dumb freshly stocked trout and lake trout.
if you're on a good lake or river with lots of rainbow, browns or lakers - chances are you might run into kokanee salmon or steelhead. those 2 fish will absolutely annihilate a banjo minnow most of the time. g'luck!
edit: oh, and the best lure I've ever used for rainbows and even some browns/splakes is a panther martin with a dressed treble and the grooved bullet style body. just choose gold or silver depending on your lake conditions and you're set. most people will tell you to straight retrieve them, which I agree with, but don't be afraid to switch up retrieves to a jerky and spastic retrieve even while fishing an inline spinner. my method for finding trout quick is to burn the lure on the first cast - next cast gets a slow retrieve to just get the blade spinning - if those fail I use a spastic retrieve much like a jerkbait, but with less pauses. if you know the fish are there, but aren't responding to one of those retrieves you know the fish are most likely lethargic or way over-pressured.
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] I have been using the banjo minnows for some time now, but only for bass. I just moved to Northern Utah, where you pretty much just fish for trout, do they work well with trout or should I stick to powerbait, or whats best? 