Re lures etc, depends on the water. There is a level of knowledge involved in looking at a piece of water, evaluating it and deciding what to use and how to fish the particular water - casting upstream onto a riffle and drop-off with a bladed spinner in fast water , downstream with a Toby in deeper water, across and down everywhere else with a Rapala or jelly bean.
Get to know your lure and know it's correct retrieve speed for it too have a correct action and what the correct retrieve speed feels like 'on the rod' when the lure is being retrieved. Do this by standing on the bank and watching the lure's action at different retrieve speeds. Read these last two sentences 10 times.
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