Article: Five Essential Lures: When you start filling your new tackle box this spring, pack some of these lures first.(Fishing)(Product/Service Evaluation)

Byline: Jerry Gibbs

When Todd Smith gave me the assignment for this month's column, I cringed. "Choose five lures that you could use to catch fish across the country and write about them," he said. "No live bait or flies. Just lures."

Five! You won't believe how many kinds of lures I stuff into boxes and bags for one trip alone, and Todd, who has fished with me often, knows it. But after muttering something about an impossible mission and hanging up the phone, I had an inspirational flash. I'd pick five, all right, but they'd be five generic types that could be tweaked and fished a bunch of different ways to cover most bases.

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