Has anyone ever done anything like this? And did it work?
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by Wannabe2aa
I've never heard of it. Steelhead fishing is usually done off the bottom, allowing your bait to drift thru areas where they're holding. At least that's how it's done on the west coast. Steelies follow the salmon and feed on their roe.
Jitterbugs on the Brule River at night for Browns, bastards smash it like someone dropped a cement block in the water and do it just as you start to pick your bait out of the water right at your rod tip ! First time it happened I thought my rod tip might be gone. I missed him and my heart was hammering for at least 20 minutes ! Thinking back on it , it was probably the biggest rush I ever had fishing including several nice Muskies that blasted out from under the boat and pasted my lure when I had about 3 foot of line out !
Brown trout, yes. They're a totally different critter and they do hit surface lures and hit em hard like ag says. The worse the weather the better they like it, at night in the middle of a storm, throw an original AC Plug if you can get your hands on one.
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