Hey,
I fished some ponds on the cape this weekend. The stocking trucks finished up last week so the trout fishing was pretty good. I soaked whole night crawlers abiut 36 inches below a pencil bobber and got a few rainbows. All between 13 and 16 inches. I saw a few other guys in waders throwing spinners and they said they had a few rainbows and an 18 inch brown so all in all pretty good.:cheers2:

Saturday, being basically nutz, I fished all day, in the rain, sleet and snow at times. Walked completely around a pond and halway around a few others.

and these

save them for the large mouth bass....you can buy that ground up newspaper bedding at walmart (or you used to anyways) and soak it up and then fill an old small beer cooler with it and they'll live in there for a month if you let air in occasionally or drill some breather holes in the top

i've caught more trout on a tiny piece of night crawler worm on a very small hook laying on the bottom than using a whole one

i found this out one day....out in the boat by accident

i had a rod sitting on the edge of the boat with say maybe 3 or four feet of line hanging over the edge.... with a relatively small hook
and a left over piece of worm on it...ok... (wasn't fishing it)

and a 20" brown came up and grabbed it away from all the perch that were trying to eat it... and nearly yanked the rod in the water

after that i went HMMMM and down sized to small pieces
and started to nail them left and right.

i always have trout in my freezer...and i always take both power bait
and worms but usually the gray garden variety because they are smaller and the trout are less intimidated by them compared to the larger night crawlers size... i use power bait as a garnish and as an
attractant for them to find my worm by either scent or color....

and the locals always tell me what the color of the day is for
power bait...i smear it on flies and add it to trebles to add scent because the liquid attractants sometimes melt the foil finishes
but heres the mini lures /plugs i always take with me in the order of preference...some will cast with ultra light set ups and the rest i troll with very effectively...

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/troutlures.jpg

without sunshine

there's allot less flash to a spinner blade rotating and they won't
be as apt to strike...so thats when i'll switch from the brown speckled to the minature rapala lure which works the best IMHO ....

and sometimes its the retrieve that has to be specific as in holding your rod tip high enough to create a V-wake with the spinner on or just under surface of the water...

sometimes though they want only something gold so i'll change up
to a gold spoon or lure... experimenting til i figure out what's hot

the minature cast masters are great for off shore casting but the subtle differences in color is the "key" to success and i also have peel and stick craft store holographic foil on some off them until i figure out what they want that particular day.

browns especially want worms at dusk and dawn or power bait
but the rainbows tend to be minnow chasers and sometimes anything with a tiny bit of orange or blue is all they'll touch.