Hey pardner,

I used to be able to fish the White River, years ago, and I used power bait from the bank. What I did was buy the pearls of bait, and a jar of dough, and I would put two pearls on the line above the hook, and cover the hook with the dough. Maybe the fish bit out of feeling sorry for me, but I thought that it looked like a bug. I guess that you could drift it, and use a split shot to keep it down, but I did have lots of success .