"Jonathan Cook" wrote in message
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PS: One time on a lake in late morning the sun was bright and the wind was
zilch and nothing at all was happening, so I parked my canoe in a deep
(15')
trench between a little island and the shore, and rigged up with a
chironomid
and a sinking line. I'd cast out short and let it sink all the way, and
then
stand in the canoe, start the rod tip at the surface and do a slow steady
lift
as high as I could (~10 feet of vertical movement). Had trout dinner that
night ;-), and the strikes were surprisingly hard.

I always find it amazing what methods work to catch trout. Sometimes it's
what you least expect.
Once I was showing a friend the backcast on the river, I told him he had to
let the line drift a bit before starting the forward cast. To show this I
just let the line fall back on the water, and as I was talking I feel this
tug on the line. My first and probably only time I would ever catch a fish
on the backcast.
fwiw,
-tom