I WAS ON A RIVER TODAY THAT I ALMOST ALWAYS USE DRIFT GEAR, BUT DECIDED TODAY TO TRY AND USE A BOBBER AND JIG, THAT WAS THE BEST DECISION IVE MADE IN AWHILE. BETWEEN ME AND MY BRO, WE HOOKED OVER 20 STEELHEAD, SOME OF U MIGHT CALL BULL---- ON THAT BUT ITS THE HONEST TO GOD TRUTH. ONE OF THE FINEST DAYS ON ANY RIVER, THAT I CAN RECALL. I WILL TRY AND POST SOME PICS, BUT HAVING DIFF. ADDING THEM TO MY MESSAGE.

Sounds like you'll be doing alot more float and jig fishing !!!. looking forward to the pics

I am all rigged up and ready to try it too. Up to today I have drifted eggs & corkies/yarn, plunked bait and flies, side-planed with plugs or cast and retrieved hardware for steelies.

But for tomorrow's trip I have my bobber & jig rigged up and ready to go. 1/4 pink marabou with some prawn tails for the hook. Am ready to become a true-believer.

Congrats fishdreamer on your great day.

I will need to try fishing bobber and jig more frequently. 20 fish. wow.


By the way, please turn off the ALL CAPS on your computer keyboard. ALL CAPS on the Internet is not only hard on the eyes, but is also considered yelling/screaming.

Looking forward to the pics.

Beautiful sunny day, decided to go against my instincts and join the mob at Reiter to try the float & jig. Walked in late, about 8am, and was greeted by two fisherman coming back out empty handed. Only about three fish taken all morning was the report, for about fifty anglers.

I spent three hours with the float & jig, getting the technique down, but had not a strike. I lost one 1/4 jig to a mid-river hang-up, so switched to 1/8 and shortened my slip above the float. Tried it with and without a prawn tail, but always with some shrimp scent. Not a strike.

When the crowd thinned out around Noon I found a slot with nobody below me for about 250 feet, and switched to side-planing a hotshot. I carefully worked the wiggling plug out and across the river and had one strike, but alas no hookup. A guy above me got a small hen about 12:30 drifting corkie and eggs.

First steelhead trip of year, 0-1. I think I will stick to empty stretches of the Skagit with my float & jig from now on, when I can really let it go downstream without having to worry about other anglers.

I wouldn't quit my day job and the non jig techniques Not every fish and river likes jigs.