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Originally Posted by booger
Yeah I caught plenty of crappie over the years. Love Berkeley products. Most my rods are Berkeley lightning. Good plastic baits too. So the little nibblets in a jar like the ones for crappie they have that for trout? Rainbow go for any live bait?
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Yeah, they'll be little bright colored marshmallow looking things, or they come in the same kind of jar as a kind formidable foam paste. The powerbait floats, so that's why you rig it with a slip sinker on the bottom and give it a few feet as leader so it comes up slightly off the bottom.
With stockers, by far the best bet is power bait or trout nibbles. The powerbait is cheating with it's engineered scent and taste, and the trout nibbles are just like the little pellets they feed them at the hatchery. They may go for nightcrawlers, but powerbait is probably better for stockers.
Use a smallish single hook (not a treble for trout!), maybe between size 6 and 10
