Thanks Dave and Keith. The fun part I understand. I've tried drift fishing/boondogging and found it fun for the first couple hours. After that, it was only fun if I was hooking up every 15 to 20 minutes. The downtime between bites became uninteresting, i.e., not so much fun. That's a main reason why I fly fish for steelhead, because it's fun even when I'm not catching a fish, which is most of the time, regardless of method.

However, I really wish you experts would address the other part of my post, about steelhead behavior and preferences, based on your own years of observation and experience. Are they really that picky? Will they really pass on one bait or lure, only to succomb to some other? And particularly, will an undisturbed steelhead, under favorable water conditions, really not strike the first properly presented bait or lure it sees?

Sincerely,

Salmo g.