Great information nicely presented.

Great idea for spring season trout look forward to using your technique on stock trout. Thanks mr.James from Providence RI

Nice tips. Great description of why the rig works and advantages/disadvantages. Thanks!

I'm new to Trout fishing. Living in SW Oklahoma we only get stocked trout through the winter. This video has given me more insight than all the other videos I've watched. Great content. Definitely rigging up the Carolina rig today.

Awesome👌Very detailed. Good setup and tips

Man I dig this video bro....awesome personality.....confidence..excellent knowledge...thank you for being a tru.

Appreciate your content, mate. This was incredibly helpful and educational. Keep the content coming.

Good video... I used your set-up and caught a few fish the other day when others weren't catching anything. It seems crazy... but works! Thanks!

Gonna try your "advanced" method. Looks like a great technique. I've also used trout flies (any sinking fly works) under a nickel to quarter size corky pegged with a 1/2 toothpick. An egg can be added for extra attractant but usually isn't needed. GREAT video. Thanks.

Very informative. I'm really just getting in to stocked trout here in Middle Tennessee and have been working out what works best. This info will help.

I’m gonna try this man. Thanks!

Great tips! My sis caught a 18" stocker using the white egg/pink worm in Dec 2020. Tight lines!

Awesome vid!

Morning. I used a modified version of your tip. I used 2 power eggs on a small octopus hook then tipped it with a honey worm, wacky rigged and a small glow corky to help really float it. Caught a pb 19.5 inch rainbow. The bite was super lite the line just went a little slack reeled down and popped it. Fish on. Was just dead sticking on a lake.

I haven't tried your bait choices (yet), but I've been using your "advanced" rigging for something over 30 years. Before the advent of power baits, we used floating marshmellow bait in white, orange and pink. We also used commercially available "salmon eggs" which were brilliant red. We used treble hooks, though, and the hooks had a wound spring on the shanks. The spring acted as a bait keeper for the marshmellow bait that was a thick paste. If you fish still water lakes and ponds, instead of floating your baits from the bottom, as your two rigs do, use a pencil float and tiny split shot to present the bait from the surface down. In addition to the feel of the bite, you then have the visual clue. I've also had success with the spinners you mentioned but, more than that, I've had some real good days throwing 1/8 Oz Kastmaster and Fiord spoons. Lastly, there are always the guys who ask what a bait is supposed to resemble. Fish, on the whole, are opportunist eaters- they'll eat anything they can. Hatchery-raised planter trout are fed pelletized food (think dog kibble) until they're released into the "wild". They aren't going to find pelletized food they're accustomed to eating and they have no idea what is or isn't edible.

Excellent teaching video.

good info, thank you

Just catching up on your vids..Thank you for explaining the slip weight rig.....I have been fishing newly released trout and they have been horrible to catch....i used this rig..and bam,,,,,,no I have time to fly fish and when that does not get them..this rig does!

Thanks, this is a new technique, can’t wait to try it in Indiana

dope technique man. thank you

Local here also we fish at alton baker park also this is very helpfull thanks

Bro, I call your rig the Frankenstein rig. My fly fisherman friends would scream 😱 seeing that Frankenstein rig for trout that’s why I will make a few to use and have in my fishing arsenal. Thanks 🙏 for sharing.

I totally agree, only buy the Berkeley Power Eggs. I guide on the White River, AR.

Nice...

I grew up fishing live bait, what we found by the creeks is what the fish were expecting to see.

I use a swivel snap like a 3-way and hang a dropshot basically from the snap at leader. You can go weightless and change weights to different sizes based on bait.

Dude thank you.

Finally a rookie like me can understand some 😎

Dude I use a 6ft leader here In WA my whole life. Gotta get it up and out of the weeds here in the pnw. They are thick

Had to make sure this wasn't posted on April 1st. I'll still try this

Waiting for that upload of the 7.5 pounder

What size corky would you recommend when using a #8 octopus hooks

I set it up wrong and still hit the limit!

What are your thoughts on the small round foam floats vs the corky's? Do you think it matters. Hard to find corky's here.

My situation is a shallow creek (18 to 30 inches) with lots of wood and grass on the bottom. I can't use anything that sinks to the bottom, or I'll lose it. Would this set up work?

I put one of them little floats on my line here in Iowa and I didn't catch anything it just scared to trout away because they weren't used to anything like that

what size is the corky float andwere do you find them?

What size corky is bet for your rig??

Do you Carolina rig a spinner?

What size are the corky's?

What are those corkies called? Cant find any in that size and color

Where can you buy corkies online?

It's called a Carolina rig.

What size of lil corky

Can't find this / little corky/ in the stores... Maybe it has a different name? Thanks!

Where to buy the corky

INSTEAD OF USING A CORKY DO YOU THINK USING A SMALL MARSHMALLOW AT THE BACK OF THE HOOK IS A GOOD IDEA ?? LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU !!

What are those corky things called?

Unless they have been in the river or stream for year's, stockers have a crappy flavor compared to native fish. I'm fortunate to live in an area of Wisconsin that is loaded with class A trout stream's. We can keep both here and I usually only keep 10 fish per year. I like to smoke em.

Sent you an Instagram message. What size corkie, brand, color? Thanks. Preston.

Yikes! What is that supposed to resemble in nature?

Man this is one of the worse video's i ever watched a 4yr old child would probably set up like you that is if nobody was there to give advice

You are full of it! Power bait has worked for me for 30 years! My kids and I always limit out on opening day every year. I continue to use it with great results! I am going camping and fishing at a 250 acre lake next week where stock trout are abundant. I have no doubt that I will be able to catch them without issues as I did 2 years ago!

New subscriber here. Love your video with lots of great tips! We have a similar KZfaq channel if you want to check it out, "Hunt and Gather with the Chatters". Thanks!