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I bet you get a lot of herring with bite marks halfway up.

When you get those short strikes, use less weight and drift/troll slow enought to get down to the bottom or thermocline. Try 1/8-1/6oz. Especially for browns and rainbows. They don't inhale herring like bass...They tear at them and spit them out if something isn't right. A small weight allows the herring to swim more freely and won't feel unnatural, so the bait and hook have a chance of getting into the trout's mouth.

When you get a strike, don't set the hook until it starts to run. And, for some reason I can't explain, small hooks (#8 mosquito) typically get a solid hookset in the jaw.

Sometimes you get 14" trout trying to swallow 6" herring. You can't fix that.

And lakers are usually more aggressive.