Comments on: The Best Bait for Spring Steelhead

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:24:58 +0000

Try a chartuse 3 hook crawler harnesses 36″ and nightcrawlers, 1/2oz slip sinker above a snap swivel. In the local lake trolling at 1.5-2 gps mph. caught 3 so far, a 22″, 16″, 20″. A little to windy as of late. Super exciting unbeliveable fight. Used berkley fireline #10.

By: billy

billy — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:12:18 +0000

go to the river get some crayfish put a #4 hook on and a small bobber done

By: Lyndon Reddick

Lyndon Reddick — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:34:47 +0000

JD- Yeah I,ve found the old “garden hackle” is a bait I can never grow old from. The Other day on Klamath river there were some hard hits but I wondered as I was only catching the rowdy trout, when here comes a steelhead flying out of the water almost in rocks- and what did he leave behind- a wriggling lamprey. never seen that before! Tried putting that sucker on the hook- but they aren’t user friendly. Too tough, and caused leader twirl- they are eels after all. You’d think those steely would love to pounce on them after being such a nuisance and so on. She was a bright one. LR

By: F1shrmn

F1shrmn — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:04:32 +0000

Or you can use a metal yarn needle from a craft store . same difference.

By: nik

nik — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:06:48 +0000

can you maybe show how to rig the float up. I know its simple but I always seem to screw up putting slip bobbers on and revert to the old “clip on”

By: jake

jake — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:56:44 +0000

I’m fishin in the tributary streams of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. I’ll have to give it a try. The season here doesn’t start until mid/late March, too much ice!

By: JD

JD — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:30:05 +0000

Depends on the day, but often we find it works better than spawn…especially in March here on the West Coast anyway…

By: jake

jake — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:20:13 +0000

How effective is this night crawler rig compared to conventional spawn drifting methods?

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:20:15 +0000

Just go to your favorite tackle store and tell them your looking for a worm threader, they’ll be more than happy to show you one!!

By: Rene

Rene — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:53:26 +0000

i like to use wax worms and wobbel glows, yarn and flies during winter and spring.. and during the summer and fall i like to use spawn, yarn, flies, and “Hot-N-Tots” i have lots of good luck using hot n tots