slight variation on hawks tecnique that I use, tie a seperate short piece of line onto the barrel instead of useing the main line(have had some knots come out useing main, also breaks main if you get really stuck) always use yarn: (tied to your main line with a single overhand knot above your hook below your corkie not in the egg loop) just long enough to cover your hook plus 1/4", yarn gets tangled in the fishes teeth giving you an extra millisecond to set the hook. now the tricky part is to put just enough lead on to bounce the bottom only about three times in the middle of your drift, cast far upstream so that when your sinker hits bottom you are in the hole. the fish will either pick it up right before your sinker hits or right after, this way you can actually feel the difference between the bottom and a fish(bottom hard metalic clank fish soft thud, very subtle difference but its there) catch many more than my share this way especially in very clear water when the fish are jumpy)