How about one of these. Designed for getting in the river and trotting a stick down without having to mess about with baitwaiters and banksticks

http://www.leslies-luton.co.uk/store...WA-BAIT-APRON/

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Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine,
No blood of living insect stain my line;
Let me, less cruel, cast feather'd hook,
With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook,
Silent along the mazy margin stray,
And with fur-wrought fly delude the prey