Do you find Powerbait Trout Nuggets or Dough effective? What color do you use? How do you fish it?
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Do you find Powerbait Trout Nuggets or Dough effective? What color do you use? How do you fish it?
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I trout fish down-stream from the hatchery, so I make my own bait because I've never had much luck w/ Powerbait. I mix hatchery pellets (they sell them out of a gum-ball machine so you can feed the fish in the hatchery tanks) w/river water, flour, and molasses. Get it thick, and pack some on a little treble w/ a split shot 18" up the line, and voila', you're using homemade bait to catch dinner.
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I have had pretty good luck with both the dough and the nuggets. I prefer the yellow. NOT chartruese but yellow. I fish it with a weight above a barrel swivel about 12-16" of leader and a small hook. Cast and let drift, tumble or sit. Pretty dull way to fish if they ain't biting, but it beats sitting at the house.
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I have caught several steelhead trout in northeastern ohio on power bait. Thes baits have ranged from preformed to the basic dough style. I have found when fishing the dough bait heres the easiest way to place it on a hook.
Take your finger and scoop out a piece of dough. Form a ball with the dough and place it in mesh sack. Tie off the sack and place the sack on an 8 or 10 size hook. Above the hook 8-12 inches place some spit shot, above the shot place your bobber or float.
Let the bait bounce along the bottome. It may take several casts to hook a fish. Also remember that if one color doesn't work you may have to change colors.
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