I'm heading up to a cottage in Haliburton for a week or so fishing on a lake called Little Red Stone and also Big Red Stone to try and catch some bass and trout. I've bought so many new Rapala jerk baits, crank baits and so on that I'm almost broke (joking). I bought a few different spoons to ad to my already big collection and a few plastic worms. I am not one for plastic worms because they have never worked for me, any ideas, I see a lot of other people using a simple plastic worm and catching big bass! What type am I supposed to use? How am I supposed to rig them and how am I supposed to move them through the water?

Also trolling for trout, we don't have down riggers so we're going to use some 3 way swivels with a 2 ounce weight on the bottom and a spoon off the other side. I'm thinking of trolling at a slow speed with a depth of about 30-40 feet. Any thought on this? What length of spoon or colour should I use?

For fishing the jerk baits, crack baits and suspension, diving baits where should I fish these? Close to the shore or should I leave that for the floating crank baits? What's the deepest I should be fishing with the other types of jerk, crank, suspending and diving baits and over what type of structure or depths for bass?

As far as plastic worms for bass go you need to get yourself a pack of 5" watermelon red flake senkos. Wacky rig them. To do this you hook the worm through the middle of the body (i prefer using octopus hooks but most any hook type will work okay). Cast the senkos out toward bassy-looking cover and let them sink. If you search the articles on bassresource you should be able to find a lot of senko fishing information. You could try texas rigging senkos or other soft plastics. If you google image texas rig you should be able to find a good picture of how to do it. If I were going to give you on piece of advice for plastic worms it would be fish them slowly. When you think your slow enough, fish it slower.

As far as jerkbaits go, I'm not fishing them too much this time of year. Thats not to say they won't catch bass but other baits are more effective in the summer IMO. Deep-diving crankbaits work well in the summer. Try fishing them on underwater points and ledges. Another type of crankbait you might want to try are lipless crankbaits (rattletraps, rattlin' rapalas, lvrs, etc.). If the lakes your fishing have grass you should be able to catch bass by ripping the lipless crankbaits out of the grass. I've been doing very well lately using this technique.

Sorry but I'm not going to be able to help you with trolling for trout. Whenever I fish for trout, which isn't often anymore, I usually fly fish.