Marmalade Spoon

The Marmalade is fall in a spoon. Warm orange over cream — the amber tones of September water, fallen leaves, and the golden-sided baitfish that staging chinook gorge on before entering Great Lakes tributaries. This pattern was designed for the autumn bite window when the biggest chinook of the year stack up at river mouths and feed with reckless aggression. The 0.65 volt galvanic current makes them commit faster.

Fall chinook are biologically driven to feed — they're building energy reserves for the spawning run, and they strike with a ferocity that the rest of the season can't match. The Marmalade's warm orange flash is a documented trigger in tannic-stained tributary plumes where these fish stage. The galvanic charge reaches them through water that's often carrying enough dissolved minerals from fall rains to conduct the bioelectric field effectively — stained water is better water for voltage-tuned lures.

Brown trout anglers: the Marmalade is also a fall specialist for you. Browns push shallow in October and November, feeding aggressively on the same warm-toned forage species before their own spawning period. The combination of natural amber color and galvanic charge is particularly effective for night-feeding browns in rivers and near-shore lake structure.

Troll at 1.5–2.5 mph. Target 20–60 feet near tributary mouths.

Stainless steel. Ball bearing swivel. Made in North America.