I think the missed fish are from the Mepps attracting more fish that are just slapping at it instead of really biting, where the Rooster Tail didn’t attract those. I use both, but generally prefer Mepps. Though I’ve also been making my own spinners now for years. I mainly use them for trout.

Both spinners good. Reel slower may have gotten others. Use identical colors and hackles. Great video.

The gold blade mepps with deep red is the best mepps

Mepps all the way! The French blade makes the difference! Rooster Tail for pan fish is the bomb! But for larger fish Mepps all day long!

Gotta keep the rod tip high once you set the hook to keep the fish on these lighter rods

Need to redo this challenge and use the same color/blade combination. I wreck smallmouth bass with a rooster tail in a white body/silver blade combo. When I use a different pattern I always catch significantly less bass.

As a 50 year user of Mepps spinners, and rooster tails as well Mepps works better for rainbow and cutthroat trout Rooster tails work better for brownies Gold blades on sunny days, and silver on overcast

They’re both good in their own right. I catch more bass on rooster tail but I catch more trout on mepps. As far as the challenge goes I would say mepps won because you got 4 bites on the mepps compared to 2 bites on the rooster tail. All fish are quality fish when comparing them to a skunk

I had the same problem losing fish with mepps spinners

Fun to watch but I do personally feel the rooster tail had the advantage in this one for some larger fish. I’ve landed some reasonable large mouth on the silver size 1 un-dressed mepps aglia, but have noticed larger strikes on the dressed size 3. The presentation of the rooster tail was reasonably larger due to the dressed hooks. I’ve also never had to set my hooks quite that hard. The thin hooks seam to burry themselves pretty easy with only a slight sweeping motion in the set. Could the hard set be either ripping through the smaller fish?

#2 blade, silver or gold color with a gray and white skirt Mepps catch me all spieces of fish when im wading. I don't waste time with a Rooster tail.

Need to put blue fox vibrax in the mix

I've had amazing results with the Long Gold version of that Mepps spinner.

Panther Martin wins (Flawless victory)

i think the Rostertail is better my opinion

Their equal!🐠

You did not sharpen hooks before useing

Ha Ha Haaa a bad workman blames his tools, the Mepp won you lost the fish .