You are certainly right Dave. Big bass love trout! That 22lber out of Castic Lake in Calif plus a number of other double digit fish I have read about from there were caught on 10" + rainbow trout type lures. It is illegal to fish with trout as bait in Calif (someone must have created that rule for a reason?. I was figuring on buying 12" fish and seeing what happens. If the bass eat them ,then I guess I will have som double digit fish. My twin % year old boys love to fish so they can catch trout for a while and then maybe a real lunker bass. Water temp today was 76 degrees on the bottom in 10' ft of water (aeration is good but makes the bottom warm too) so they probably wont holdover through next Summer.