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You take a couple of good size nightcrawlers and hook'em once in the middle. Then you take some real thick clay mixed with stones and pack it around the crawlers.
It will sink like a "stone" and when it hits bottom jiggle it a bit so the clay dissolves and the crawlers wiggle out. The trout are attracted to the cloud of dirt and then see the wiggling crawlers and come over and swim off with them. With the circle hook all you have to do is keep a tight line and the trout hooks itself.
Then you are free to fight the trout sans heavy sinkers and dipseys etc..
Believe it or not I only had a 5 tall boys and 1/2 bottle of wine in me (just another Wed or Thurs night) so no...not hammered.
However I am looking forward to your next months blog with the Twinkie as a hot new pattern I do have some more gems including a stationary trolling technique.
A brief post-script to this discussion... Thanks for all the great input. I got back from up north yesterday. It was a fantastic trip, great weather and a lot of fishing for lakers, brookies and pike. For lakers, I tried trolling with the dipsy's and didn't have much luck (caught one tiny one), although as one poster pointed out, this was the less frustrating approach when the wind was blowing hard. When it was windy, jigging was just too difficult, even with a drift sock deployed, as we couldn't stay vertical for very long.
As many predicted, jigging yielded the bigger lakers when conditions permitted. We went to the narrows between islands where we know they hold in about 65 feet of water. Spent two evenings there, and both nights the bite consistently picked up at dusk, between 8 pm and 9 pm. I caught three good ones, all using a 1 oz white roundhead jig tipped with a plastic Gulp! emerald shiner minnow (real minnows are not allowed in that part of Quebec). I also found that using a stinger hook embedded into the tip of the minnow's tail was helpful for the short-striking lakers.
Here is a pic of my best one, a 5 lb'er / 22.5 inches. Nothing like the giant Slave lakers another guy posted about but they struck hard and put up a good fight. Three was a definite improvement on my previous laker fishing and I'm grateful to all who chimed in with helpful tips. Thanks!
Thanks guys. The lake I caught that one in is called Sault aux Cochons, it's a few hours north of Tadoussac, after you cross the Saguenay. Closest town is called Forestville. It's really remote, the kind of place where you have to have an ATV or at least a truck with high clearance. I'm heading back there in late September to do some partridge hunting (first time).
As per the request, here are a few more pics from my trip: the other two lakers I got plus one of the better pike (ate it - first time trying pike, very tasty). All these lakers were caught jigging, and white was definitely the colour for the jigs. The pike was caught with a perch coloured Husky Jerk (#12 I think).
