Steelhead set ups

[natetreat]

That's just the cold talking. Your joints seize up and act all arthritic in the freezing wet steelhead weather! I know mine do at times.

[Mike Carey]

That's just the cold talking. Your joints seize up and act all arthritic in the freezing wet steelhead weather! I know mine do at times.

I wish. That's at home tying rigs ahead of time.

[dea]

Sight, Hearing, Dexterity... That must be the reason why so many of us long for a slower paced life as we get older...I know I do. There must be some instinctual mechanism that is telling us to slow down or we may hurt ourselves. Hehehe.

[jens]

Nice set up FF. I use the same but use between a 4-7 shot slinky. Instead of eggs, we are running a 4-6 inch Pink worm with a chartreuse cheater. The BIGGG Nates love Pink Worms.

[RiverChromeGS]

Nice set up FF. I use the same but use between a 4-7 shot slinky. Instead of eggs, we are running a 4-6 inch Pink worm with a chartreuse cheater. The BIGGG Nates love Pink Worms.

Nice! Yea its a really good way to get down to the fish, but is much more effective than drift fishing i beleive. I an yet to try a pink worm this year because ive been fishin in hatchery brats, but when i start fishin the vedder im gonna give your set-up a try. theres some big nates there, and ive seen some guys catch hawggs 15-20 pounds on big pink worms, not to say i havent caught my share of pigs on eggs, but if pink worm will work for big fish, why go through the trouble!

[woody_george]

FF / Mike / Nate - Thanks for all the tips in this post. I am going to try this setup next time out.

[Steelheadin360]

Reallyhavent cruised the forums to much on here but looks like im gonna start!! We have been using the bottom bouncing float method for about a year up here on the stilly with my fishin buddys and the amount of hook ups and fish have greatly increased and the amount of gear lost has gona from 10+ set ups a day to maybe one or two. one little trick i do with my floats it run two bobber stops. one above my float and one below just incase you get hung up and bust the swivel off, you can still get your float back. One thing i started doing with this set up though is running circle hooks. because with this way of fishing that fish has enough time to swallow those eggs way down there and i dont like gut hooking fish i dont intend to keep! and with the way of fishing and the diesgn of those hook you just kinda tighten up the line when the float sinks and fish on!!

But when the water clears up a bit i switch back to the faithful jigs and tip them with some coonie tails. or when we are fishing before daylight up on the forsten the glow head jigs are the hot ticket!! (no night closure)

one thing it seems people have gotten away from too is plunking which i still love doing. anbyone still do this?

[FishingThePacNW]

Where is that green river fishing vid?

[RiverChromeGS]

Reallyhavent cruised the forums to much on here but looks like im gonna start!! We have been using the bottom bouncing float method for about a year up here on the stilly with my fishin buddys and the amount of hook ups and fish have greatly increased and the amount of gear lost has gona from 10+ set ups a day to maybe one or two. one little trick i do with my floats it run two bobber stops. one above my float and one below just incase you get hung up and bust the swivel off, you can still get your float back. One thing i started doing with this set up though is running circle hooks. because with this way of fishing that fish has enough time to swallow those eggs way down there and i dont like gut hooking fish i dont intend to keep! and with the way of fishing and the diesgn of those hook you just kinda tighten up the line when the float sinks and fish on!!

But when the water clears up a bit i switch back to the faithful jigs and tip them with some coonie tails. or when we are fishing before daylight up on the forsten the glow head jigs are the hot ticket!! (no night closure)

one thing it seems people have gotten away from too is plunking which i still love doing. anbyone still do this?

Glad to see the technique is as effective for you as it is for me! way to go! 45 steelhead this year on it so far, a few on jigs too

[Steelheader112]

Hey FF been bobberdogging like that for years now. It's great for people who have never drift fished before as well. It's very visual and instead of swinging it's more vertical. It also helps certain people because they don't have to adjust their weight to the drift. I have found usage for it in many situations, it has it's time and place. I would swap the dink for a slip float WAAAY easier to adjust and cast. I usually use west coast floats or beau-mac easy drifters for my set up. I still drift bait without the float more often though. Often times I find people use too much weight when they drift, if they are in constant contact with the bottom they need to lower their weight. You need to tick about every 10 feet at the most when you are drifting.

[RiverChromeGS]

Yep! My favorite part, like you said is that the drift is straight, you know right where your gear is and you can keep your gear on a seam longer without swinging in. Its great for holes that are too deep or swift for a jig, where you gotta get down deep in heavy water to the fish. I do use a slip bobber when fishing deeper water, and dink's for shallower, smaller rivers. Just depends on the situation. I rarely drift fish plain anymore, this seems to work much better and the gear loss is at a minimum! 54 steelhead since december 2nd, only 30 days this winter run season, on this rig alone, minus 5 or 6 of those on jigs.

[Mike Carey]

Where is that green river fishing vid?

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