Figured I'd give trout plugs a shot at the trailer park. Brian #2 has all my Slammers, but I just bought a sick looking osprey. 7" key lime color. Oh yes. So, I respooled some 30# Floroclear onto my 400S, tied on the Osprey and charged it. I utilized the Byron Velvick retrieve, demonstrated in the video, and it actually works. I had 3 or 4 fish bite the bait during my 1 hour session. Velvick says to kind of hop the bait in the water, so that it dimples the surface and then sinks down a foot or two and comes up and dimples the surface again. It looks like a trout eating mosquitos and stuff off the surface. Let me tell you, this retrieve is sweet. I could not get bit on the straight wind, slow roll, or bulging the surface, but all of the fish bit it using the Velvick retrieve. It was pretty cool to actually watch a video, go out and try something I learned, and actually have it work. Unfortunately I didn't stick any fish, but for some reason I'm still satisfied having those fish bite it. That means many more nights of trout plug excitement within 15 minutes of my house... oh yeah. So, Byron Velvick is pretty much my hero, and I'll undoubtedly be at the trailer park tomorrow night after work.
-Brian