Fish for steelhead on the amazing Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Learn details on fishing a bobber and jig with David Hawken of Hawken Fishing & Bill Meyer of Angler's Guide Service.
Nice job guys, enjoyed the tip on tying leader to main-line and also your emphasis on line mending. mending is key for ANY type of drift fishing whether its eggs,shrimp,shiners,maggots,or jigs. Also, I would have to disagree however on the guy saying someone new within a couple hours can learn what seasoned steel header has learned over long time. It sounds good but in reality you send a newbie with a jig under a bobber into a grand river and they aren't going to be picking up fish within a couple casts as your making it seem. You guys know these rivers, you know where the fish lay in the pools, it takes time to learn to read water and rivers. One day you can catch 20 fish off a spot next day the fish are gone. Its tough pin pointing an exact time and place for migratory fish like some try to do with salmon/steelhead. The real key is just enjoying the water and scenery and let the fishing be a bonus.
This is the best fishing video i have found on youtube (i might be bias since i'm targeting steelhead for the season). This channel and informative fishermen are my favorites for fishing. Keep up the good work.
Very neat to watch a different style of gear fishing. Where I am in BC we drift a lot of jigs but typically with a center pin setup and a short leader.
I fish on the Salmon river in NY State. Like the way you release the fish....great job. I can float with the best of them, but I am an old bottom bouncer. Good fishing !!
Sorry Mr Aerojigs but I disagree on bouncing, I have caught dozens of steelhead in the same spot on the Kilchis bouncing a shrimp colored 1/4oz down the sand and gravel bar, those fish always ferociously sink the float, good no brainer bobber down in those cases.
do have any suggestions for fishing in washington right now for trout. I just caught one with a lot of luck out of the cle elum river 17 inch long trout thank you
Greetings you mouse-minded dipshit. Thanks for your shitty, now-deleted comment on my Spencer video. Stick to digging up grubs and sitting on the dock of the bay. Leave politics to those of us with an IQ above 90. Hail Victory.
Steelhead on the Olympic peninsula have been abused by Indians and sportsman for decades, facilitated by Washington Fish and Game protecting selfish stakeholders over the fish... So sad...a great team effort....
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Nice that you share the area your fishing, it encourages the hobby of fishing!
It is refreshing to see good fish handling. Well done.
Very professionally produced and great fishing information!
Nice job guys, enjoyed the tip on tying leader to main-line and also your emphasis on line mending. mending is key for ANY type of drift fishing whether its eggs,shrimp,shiners,maggots,or jigs. Also, I would have to disagree however on the guy saying someone new within a couple hours can learn what seasoned steel header has learned over long time. It sounds good but in reality you send a newbie with a jig under a bobber into a grand river and they aren't going to be picking up fish within a couple casts as your making it seem. You guys know these rivers, you know where the fish lay in the pools, it takes time to learn to read water and rivers. One day you can catch 20 fish off a spot next day the fish are gone. Its tough pin pointing an exact time and place for migratory fish like some try to do with salmon/steelhead. The real key is just enjoying the water and scenery and let the fishing be a bonus.
As always the best information. Presented with a excellent guide to what how and why. Thanks
This is the best fishing video i have found on youtube (i might be bias since i'm targeting steelhead for the season). This channel and informative fishermen are my favorites for fishing. Keep up the good work.
Very neat to watch a different style of gear fishing. Where I am in BC we drift a lot of jigs but typically with a center pin setup and a short leader.
I fish on the Salmon river in NY State. Like the way you release the fish....great job. I can float with the best of them, but I am an old bottom bouncer. Good fishing !!
When the guide hooks up while demonstrating technique, it kind of validates the lesson.
I prefer spinners, but you really can’t beat a jig and bobber.
I use nothing but aero nightmare jigs with a soft bead dropper. Best combo ever and the late season “natives” love the nightmare.
That last fish was so prime!
Great video, thanks for the additional tips.
That’s the sol duc.. gave it away by talking about the snider creek (spelling) broodstock fish.
As soon as he said that I knew where
Sorry Mr Aerojigs but I disagree on bouncing, I have caught dozens of steelhead in the same spot on the Kilchis bouncing a shrimp colored 1/4oz down the sand and gravel bar, those fish always ferociously sink the float, good no brainer bobber down in those cases.
Please tell me this guide has gotten rid of the jacket that he's wearing in its video.
Cory Sceva why?
Have they reinstated the brood stock program there?
No broodstock anymore...wdfw has their heads up their butts.
What main-line are you guys using? Looks like high-vis braid?
You mention the bumper being mono then floro leader, but what is the main line?
i remember david hawken from maple valley ward and the haueters from maple valley back in the late 80s
do have any suggestions for fishing in washington right now for trout. I just caught one with a lot of luck out of the cle elum river 17 inch long trout thank you
I agree, but Eric is asking about centerpinning, not steelheading.
Hawken for the win
In BC there are, not so much down in the states...unless you're talking bout the great lakes area.
Centerpinning is picking up interest in Washington and Oregon.
Are there people centerpinning over there?
Do they really expect people to remember the knots?
Yes.. Its something you do for fishing
I have to watch it 10 times
OK, nobody has asked this question. How do you tell if it's wild or breeder/ hatchery fish? Couldn't understand that
The adipose fin is removed in the hatchery before the smolts are released. That's the fin on top behind the dorsal.
There is also another way that the Indian hatchery's use and that is clipping the dorsal fin. A dorsal fin less than 2 1/4 inches is a hatchery fish.
What kind of floating main line is that
Devon Hurley they say it in the video
I have caught a lot of salmon and steal head in forks Washington good job
were the idians netting the river that month
Ohhh no. Here come the crowds because I gave the rivers name away.............. lol I’d like to see the average joe row this river.
I live in the same area wish they stated which river there fishing on
+Zach Long looks like the stretch above the hatchery by the hoagie shield
Zach Long what river was it?
hoagie shield
Zach Long they did... you just didn’t listen to the clues close enough.
what kind of main line is that yellow?
It should be Hydro-Float.
P line Cxx high viz
blood knot is way easier to tie leader.
Nice
90% of my jig fish have come on Aerojigs 👍
it's not hydro float it's way too green
Hoh? Sol Duc? Or Bogachiel?
Greetings you mouse-minded dipshit. Thanks for your shitty, now-deleted comment on my Spencer video. Stick to digging up grubs and sitting on the dock of the bay. Leave politics to those of us with an IQ above 90. Hail Victory.
They told you.
Looks like the mighty c dub
This is awfffffully technical for some bobber fishing.
Unless a fin is clipped u can’t tell of its a hatchery fish cmon man
Steelhead on the Olympic peninsula have been abused by Indians and sportsman for decades, facilitated by Washington Fish and Game protecting selfish stakeholders over the fish... So sad...a great team effort....
americans love their spinning reels.
41odyssey center pinning just screams British Elitism, no thanks this is America.
So? What's the problem with spinning reels?
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boring!!! less talk more fishing!
Boring
Just like you...
I agree...
what river are they on
Im guessing the hoh river but could be bogachiel or sol duc too.
Can't give away everything
They told you... you just didn’t listen to the clues close enough.
keithexplosion you guessed wrong, way off. Your suggestions might have been on to something though.