For some reason, I keep thinking that spoons are "old school" style lures.  Anyhow, a friend showed me an old magazine listing the top 50 lures of all time.  Coming in second place, I believe, was the Dardevele spoon.  

I was just wondering if any of you guys fish spoons with success.  I ended up buy two just because it was ranked 2nd.  

With that said, here is my set-up for spoons:  I use a split ring to attach to spoon then I use a barrel swivel and attach one end to ring and other end to line.  Is this correct?  I retrieve with a steady pace.  Do you guys find this effective or do you prefer a stop and go action?

Thanks fellas.

Yeah, when fish see spoons they say, "I'd hit it."  Spoons are tight.  Split rings work well when using a casting rig, and on spinning rigs a swivel keeps the twists out of the line.  Steady pace works most of the time.  The stop and go works well too.  I jig them sometimes when the fish aren't real active.  My favorite colors are chrome and the yellow w/ red dots spoons.

ive never really put alot of time into learning how to fish them right but as a kid i fished them an never caught a thing on them(most likely innexperiace not the lure...lately ive not given much thought to them but am sure id have better luck now if i tried it an stuck with it

Here is a link to fishing jigging spoons.  Refers mostly to the electronics interpretation end of things, but does also include some technique info.  I found it very interesting, and you may as well.

http://heartlandtackleservice.com/spooning.stm

This man, LTBama, posts these items on another site.  You can research his posts.  Good stuff, and most all of it is captured in this.  Hope this helps.

i hate spoons and really don't know much about them....but my borther and his friend love them and they catch a godd amount of fish...none of the fish they catch are real big

No just forks and knives

Muddy strikes again !

Jigging spoons are one of my most favorite ways to fish for bass.  You can almost always find some bass willing to grab them in the deeper water.  I don't use swivels but do get a lot of line twist.  I just keep changing rods when line twist gets bad, then pull out some line off the reels and let it unravel itself behind the boat as I move.  I also don't tie the line directly to the jigging spoon.  I thread the line through the eyelet and tie it to a small treble hook.  If you keep in contact with the spoon on the fall you won't get the trebles crossed as often.  Also, take along some old spark plugs, as it's a great way to get your spoons back when they get hung up on the bottom.

I do great with johnson silver minnows, rapala weedless spoons (until i lost mine), and mepps timber doodles. These all accel in weeds, and can be used like a frog on top of lilys and scum.

For those of you that want to fish something other then tubes up on Erie then the spoons are a wonderful alternative.  Yoyoing them can be deadly. I also use a swivel because of line twist.

I used to fish spoons all the time on the St Johns River in Florida. I would use them plain or with a trailer such as a skirt, or pork rind.  I'd even tear a 7" worm in half and use that as a trailer.  Favorite color is gold and then silver. Caught lots on them boogers.   Gees ,  now you got the memories coming back.