I've been experimenting, trying to figure out what it takes to catch my fish on artificial lures.

Mostly I've been doing this after the evening pellet fest is over.
Yesterday I decided to try it in the middle of the pellet fest.

Put a brown grub body on a Trout Magnet jig head and it was on like Donkey Kong.
Tried it under a 3/4" styrofoam float. Lot of swipes, but not many hook-ups.
Dropped straight in and held still, wiggled a bit, or slow horizontal motion was the ticket.
Red and black also caught a few, including the biggest, fattest RES I've yet seen.
I threw a single barbless hook Rooster Tail knockoff a few times. Got one BG on that, but most strikes resulted in a miss.

I caught and transferred to the bait pond 18 5"-8" BG/HBG. Half a dozen over 8" went back in to grow.
Caught one SMB, one HSB, and one ~12" YP.

I'm going to do this again, and be prepared with landing net, camera, ruler, and scales.