The picture you see of me with fish to the left is a rainbow from Bellaire lake (20"). It had two other hooks and broken leaders in it's lip! All the fish are stockers there, so this one was probably a retired brood fish. Anyway, always caught a lot of fish at Bellaire last year, mostly fairly typical range of sizes for stockers, and never saw anyone else fishing it while I was there (about 5 times). Lots of holes, but nobody over them.
I used small 1" trout tube jigs, micro nymphs, meal worms pieces on bare 1/32 oz. jig heads. It's one of the few places where I could slowly reel up my jib, and see fish following. Almost everytime I reeled up, severl trout would slash at the bait right under the hole. Pretty fun.