I have had god luck in years past with the lil plastic dealies that you insert a baitfish into. I too am a die hard moocher but have pretty much given it up for trolling and jigging cuz they are (for me) much more effective. I believe the one that I used to use was made by Luhr-Junsen and you had to push a toothpick thru to secure the bait fish. I would troll (sometimes almost motor-mooching) w/ a downrigger. No weight and no flasher is a blast! And. Believe it or not when trolling I would troll down current and then turn around and troll up current. Sometimes I'd get more hits one way than the other and then I would only troll that way, picking up at the end of the drift and runnin back up to the start. I could actually tell when fish were hittin the bait (but not gettin hooked) as I was trollin so would get n idea of where they were. I gotta admit that I caught more fish more consistently when using a flasher or dodger tho.

Hope this helps. Good luck n tight lines

Sincerely
Roger

ps -- Oops, forgot that I had already posted this. CRS I guess!
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