The mousetrap seems to out-fish the basic ball of dough bait without the tail.
One reason is the mousetrap tails creates movement in the water current, getting the trout’s attention and investigates closer.

I started using the mousetrap system at Mountain Lakes in the San Bernardino Mountains in 1987. I wanted a way to attract trout to my dough bait by giving it a little movement. Back then; they did not have power worms, so I used San Juan Worm material to make my mousetraps. I would take a little San Juan Worm material and some thread and wrapped the material to my treble hooks.

Now, with many plastic trout worms on the market, I’m able to easily setup my Mousetrap dough bait setups easily.

Two fishing rods are allowed at most California lakes. Please check with your D.F.G. regulations for updated rules on freshwater fishing.

When fishing for trout, one of the best ways is to setup one rod for bait fishing and the other for throwing trout lures. You will cover more water in a shorter time period.

 

Two Mouse Traps setups below

1. Size 10 Owner Mosquito hook
2. Weed-less Power worm setup for heavy cover
3. Regular hook Power worm thread setup
4. Power worm mouse trap rig. Use #3 setup for this rig