I agree. It's been around since I was a kid and I'm quite sure I'm older than you. I tried them without much luck. I preferred a Swedish Pimple and still do ice fishing.

I always thought those were stupid lures, until one trip when we were hiked in 6 miles camping at a high altitude deep lake in CO and struggling to catch anything where there was supposed to be a ton of cutthroat. Finally out of desperation I tied one of those stupid things on and we started catching the crap out of them.

Any brook trout in Minnesota .? Maybe that’s why you have no luck.....

A Maine staple in most tackle boxes growing up.

The creek I use that in is so brushy overhead it's nearly impossible to fly fish. With this setup you can under pitch the spinner. It helps to have a stiff fly rod though, not a flimsy one. Plus when fly fishing if I want to spinner fish, I just put the century reel on. Thats what my grandmother used at the lake with the old herter's yellow headed doll flies. Johnson century on an eagle claw fly rod.

Never had any luck with the duper but the Thomas fighting fish has been a winner over the years... if you’re into experimenting it’s well worth a try. I get the gold or silver and paint half long wise with red nail polish.

Inherited my grandma's tackle box with some of those superdupers in there. Never used them till ice fishing. Worked good on large trout through the ice. A few years back, tried them on walleye through ice, worked well enough that I bought a few more. Best one was a silver with rainbow prism and red dot on it.

I love using a small spinning reel on a really lite 6' flyrod. Makes them 8" trout feel like a whopper !

Probably 85% of the fishing I do is with a fly. When I throw hardware for trout or grayling, the silver Super Duper with a red tip is one of my go-to lures, along with various Panther Martins and Roostertails. Been using them here in AK for at least 50 years.

Nessmuck, I fish brook trout in a couple small streams, streams you could jump across. I just use live bait there, worms mostly. I tried the Super Dupers for rainbows.