salmobytes wrote:
A heavy glass bead, fished without weight on the leader,
was the best solution. At least you could feel hte strikes right
away. But a heavy egg doesn't drift as well, so that
solution had its drawbacks too.

I forgot the wrap-up. I don't think we caught a single
fish by feeling the strike and setting the hook. In all
cases we got hookups when we saw a fish move
and reacted to that.

If the water had been off-color, we'd have been
skunked, even though we'd had dozens of strikes.