Originally Posted by
hawgrule
We usually go to the little red a few times a year when it gets real hot and trout magnets work great. But our go-to, and I dont know if its a "faux pas" of trout fishing but we have always used crickets. If they will eat a fly on top of the water, why wouldn't they eat a live creature that looks similar to a fly/nymph/etc? We usually get funny looks from folks, and the fly fisherman really get to staring us down, but we rig them up with a modified C&C rig with a fixed weight to cast and catch on the rocks. Good luck!