GREAT! you guys have given me some wonderful ideas, i think i'm going to have to use RT's shrimp idea, it will have to wait until christmas time, when my dad and i always do our traditional steelhead trip. the planning starts now!

on another note i have a trick i played on a buddy i was working with, i worked at a sporting good store for about 4 or 5 years, we ended up hiring a guy to work our clothing dept. but, he was always over in the fishing area. He was really green when it came to fishing, i mean this guy didn't have a clue. but, i'll give him credit, he really wanted to get into fishing. well, trout season was comming up, so he bought his float tube, waders, trout rod etc...etc..., well opening day came and went, it was about the second or third week of trout season, we decided to go to a local lake and try trout fishing, and the New guy tagged along, we were catching fish like crazy and he couldn't buy a bite! he got really frustrated and finally at teh end of the day he had to ask us what we were using. I instantly came up with this idea. I told him we were using S.S.P.B (Super Secret Power Bait), if he only knew! if he had paid attention he should have noticed we were trolling (with flys no less) and really couldn't have been using power bait. Anyway, he really wanted some of this S.S.P.B., now of course the stuff didn't exist, but i told him i would be happy to oblige and i would bring some the next day to work. i went home that night and quickly made some play dough, died it this dark red with food coloring, and added the so called secret ingredients, (motor oil, a little glitter, red hot pepper flakes, and what ever else i could come up with) so i bring it in to work the next day, of course the guys i worked with couldn't wait, they had prepared the jar and a label that said S.S.P.B., in the same shape as regular power bait jars would be. this, is the bad part, one of my buddies actually took the jar into the bathroom and added a little Yellow substance to it too! well, later that day we gave it to him, boy was he excited, couldn't wait to go try it, i mean he was pumped, course we told him don't open it until you get to the lake, and all kinds of foney advice.
we all agreed to go to the lake after work, so that's what we did we all met at the lake, and worked our way out with the float tubes to the fishing area, and sure enough, the New guy pops the lid off the new S.S.P.B. and we did the same (we had to fish power bait just to go along with this hoax, that and we wanted to see him actually use it!) well, we all cast out, and i SWEAR within 1 minute, the NEW guy had a fish! we all about **** when we saw this! The worst part was he caught his 5 trout limit in less that 30 minutes, and the rest of us caught nothing, the rest of the night! I mean not even a bight! we all looked at each other and i think out jaws were hitting the water! none of us caught anything that night, except the NEW guy! I still laugh to this day, when i think about what we did and how it backfired on us!

i don't know if there is a moral to the story but, from that point on none of us messed with the NEW guy!