Dabluz... funny you mention the slip pencil float (English style) rigs you use to catch those trouts, I make my own rigs and they are basically walleye rigs that works great for trout from shore targetting the bottom of the water column
Bought the different components at www.luremaking.com: barrel swivels, snap swivels, pill float bobbers, plastic beads (stoppers), Bell sinkers and Mustad Ultrapoint hooks, Octopus Beak, size 2. They look like the following:
Yesterday, I'd get a hit everytime I casted out and this even before the sinker had reached bottom Fast & furious action
I bet today, no one is catching sniff where I was yesterday.... just the way it is with trout fishing I suppose