Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3911 May 2020 | Page 8

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Depending on the size of the worms I’m
using, I pin them on either a No. 8 or 10
bait holder hook. A lot of anglers make the
mistake of balling their worm up on the
hook. This results in a lifeless worm glob.
A better strategy is to lightly pin the worm
on the hook. This way as it drifts along it
is able to move and wriggle, resulting in
a much more natural looking presentation
and correspondingly more hookups.
Running a close second to worms in
my stream trout arsenal are crickets.
Trout love crickets and grasshoppers, so
they are a wonderful choice. The crickets
I buy generally come 50 at a time in a
VOL.39 • ISS. 11
How To
By Cal Kellogg
brown tub with a chunk of potato in it for
the crickets to feed on. The lids on these
tubs come off pretty easily. I only had to
loose all my crickets once to realize that I
needed a better way of carrying them on
the stream.
Fortunately for us there are commer-
cially manufactured cricket cages
available on the market. These cages
have a screw on lid at the top, a metal or
plastic mesh middle section and a tapered
funnel shaped opening on the bottom that
is plugged with a cork. When you pull out
the cork there is enough room for a single
cricket to exit the cage and on the hook he
goes!
Crickets are
pretty active and
transitioning them
from the tub into a
cricket cage can be
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When you expose crickets to the cold you
want to keep an eye on them. You don’t
want them to die. You just want to slow
them down.
If you choose to take the time to catch
grasshoppers they are even more effective
than crickets and you can keep them in the
same cage you’d keep crickets in. To catch
grasshoppers you’ll need some sort of fine
meshed net with a long handle. With net
in hand, head out to a grassy, brushy area
and let the hunt begin. Heck if you’ve got
the time, catching ‘hoppers can be almost
as fun as stalking trout!
Crickets and grasshopper are placed
on the hook in the same way. The hook
point is inserted into the chest just below
the head and exits the body where the
abdomen connects to the rear of the chest.
To keep them securely in place, push the
eye of the hook into the chest. A No. 10
bait holder hook is about right for crickets
while a larger No. 8 bait holder works
better for grasshoppers.
Trout, especially rainbows, seem to
be genetically wired to eat salmon eggs,
since both hatchery trout and wild trout
living in streams that don’t have a salmon
run will readily gobble up salmon eggs,
despite the fact that they have never seen
one before. The first trout I ever caught
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countless others on eggs over the years.
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There are a few different brands of
salmon eggs on the market. The best I’ve
ever used come from the Pautzke Bait
Company in Washington State. Pautzke’s
Green Label eggs are the stuff of legend
on most West Coast trout streams, likely
having produced more trout than all other
baits combined.
When most anglers think of salmon eggs
they envision bright red eggs. Red eggs
work great, but for a subtler presentation
I like to have some yellow, orange or
natural colored eggs on hand too. Eggs
are best fished one or two at a time. I
fish my eggs with a No. 12 octopus hook
imbedded in them. If I’m using two eggs
I pin the hook through the first egg and
slide the egg up onto the leader. The
second egg has the hook imbedded in it
and the second egg is slid down against it.
The final bait I’ll discuss in the lowly
mealworm. Mealies are a light colored
larval worm that are about 1 inch long.
They are plump, juicy and helpless,
making them a prime target for a hungry
trout. I like to place them on a No. 10 bait
holder hook. I thread them onto the hook
such that the entire shank of the hook and
the eye is concealed in the worm and only
the bend and the point are exposed.
Rods, reels, tackle and baits, that is half
the picture for the successful stream trout
angler. The second half of the picture is
tactics and techniques. When fishing from
a boat your sonar unit often locates the
fish. The stream angler doesn’t have any
nifty technological short cuts for locating
fish. Instead, they use their eyes and
knowledge of trout behavior to find their
quarry. This skill is known as “reading the
stream”.
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depths and current speeds are constantly
changing. Stream trout have two primary
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