Easy Way To Catch Steelhead Bank Fishing Plugs In Rivers or Creeks.

hey guys the cameras addicted fishing and gone caching guide service and in this particular tutorial we're gonna be showing you guys how to plunk a steelhead plug on a high turbid River for those of you guys that are interested in fishing high water we also do it another tutorial on plunk and spinning glowing bait that's on our channel so be sure to subscribe to addictive fishing and check out all the great content that we've got there for you guys so stay tuned so this year in the North West when they're filming this tutorial the waters been super high we've been leaving our sleds and our drift boats at home and unfortunately we've been all watching the river gauges just for one oh just stop raining so we get a chance to go out and catch a steelhead but to be honest with you there's always a chance to catch a steelhead if you have visibility that's any bit any little bit greater than about a foot and that's plunking so in this particular river right here I've got about three foot of visibility the water is extremely high if nothing close to what we're used to fishing when we're just doing our standard drifting or bob or dog or anything like that but those fish are still gonna want to move they're still gonna want to use the high water to get themselves upriver to get where they want to go to spawn and so if you can take advantage of having the high water push those fish and a very dedicated travel lanes you can get your presentation in front of them you've got a good opportunity to catch up so this spawn all the location that we would normally fish when the water is at its normal height through even low this particular run is dead slot calm there's no current but of course so that it's eight feet of water on top of it today there is a lot of water pushing down the river and what it's done as all the main current has been pushing to the outside here and it's left the soft seam on the inside from a point that's a little bit upriver well as a fish is moving up forever he's not gonna be out there swimming in that superfast current getting blasted by that he's gonna be running up these edges and these seam lines to find the path of least resistance if I can keep my plug in that zone as that fish is coming upriver he's gonna get irritated and hopefully take a shot at it so let me run through my setup here because this is gonna be different than the traditional steelhead rod and reel that we typically use in the northwest first I've got one of my salmon trolling rods and the reason why I chose this one in particular was because it's got about a nine and a half foot length and it's a 15 Parag I'm gonna be casting a pretty heavy lead to make sure that my presentation stays in that seam line and stays in that current and so I'm not gonna want to be using my standard you know six to twelve pound rods or my eight to 15 pounds they're not gonna handle this big lead and heavy current so I'm going up graded to one of my salmon rod just a little heavier it's got nice length to where it's gonna be able to keep that line up and out so I don't have a lot of line down in the water where it's gonna drag I want to be able to use the lightest amount of lead to keep my presentation still and where I want it so I don't have to use something like a 20-ounce LED to do that because it's gonna be very difficult to catch a fish and I'm gonna end up snagging that lead a lot on a lot of the debris and stuff that is not traditionally under water that's going to be underwater with the water being this hot now I've liked it for my low pro line counter real the reason why I've done that because if I cast out and I'm fishing in a particular spot and I get a strike or I get a fish I can replicate that I know I'm gonna be out there at 35 on the line counter or 50 on the line counter whatever that distance may be I can replicate it and then if I'm fishing with buddies or I've got other guys I'm along the banquette they can replicate it too so having a lie encounter is extremely important just as important as if we're out in the Columbia or big water running lines out to 180 or whatever that larger distance could be my line I'm gonna stick with my braided lines thirty to fifty pound test these thinner line diameters won't drag as much in the current so I'm gonna be able to use a lighter LED than I normally would if I was using a thirty or forty pound monofilament that diameters thick it's gonna drag even though I'm not casting out far it still makes the leave quite a bit of difference so I do something a little bit different when I'm flunking my steelhead plugs in a tributary just because of the debris the rocks the log sticks and bushings and stuff I try to cast out my weight let that settle in before I slide my plug down so since I do that like my setup is actually very simplistic I've got my braided line that runs down to a bead chain and all I've got above it is a large bead this happens to be an eight millimeter bead but if you were use a 10 millimeter or a 12 with a Corky the idea is that you just want a pretty thick bead sliding up and down your line right here and I'll get to more of that in a second now from the swivel to my weight I'm gonna have a distance of about three feet since those steel head plugs are gonna have a little bit of their diving action on their own I don't want to use like a four or a six inch dropper like I would if I was using like a spinning glowing bait the plugs gonna have a dive it's gonna have some action to it so I need to make sure that I have it elevated off the bottom a little bit so it's moving down to where the fish is but it's not just laying down in the dirt or look getting snagged on grass or something along the bottom so I've got about a three foot distance here to about a six to eight ounce triangle leg so what I'm gonna start with when it comes to attaching my steelhead plug to my main line is a very small duo snap now the key is is that this duo snaps gap right here where the hook is is smaller than that 12 10 8 millimeter bead that I put on the line the reason why is this is gonna clip onto the line and slide down to that bead if this is bigger than that beat it's gonna slide over it and it's gonna end up sliding down to the weight or going around that swivel and then it's gonna follow up it's not going to be doing what you want so that's why we use that larger green bead as you saw just a little bit earlier then I've got about three foot of 22 25 pound test the reason why I'm using that heavier line is once again the water is real high the fish could be big I don't want a fish to get way out in the current and they end up breaking off my great steelhead plug because I'm using something that's too light especially when it's not necessary this presentation is gonna be down wiggling in front of the fish as the fish approaches it you don't need to go this isn't a you don't need to go light this isn't a light drift presentation where you're trying to drift a bead or a worm so using a little heavier line there will hopefully keep those fish on your line and avoid you from losing your plug now when it comes to the plug I've got a little mag lip 3.0 here but you can use anything here you can use anything from a tadpole to a little Brad's wiggler and I'm gonna have more on that in just a minute and some different variations with the plugs that you can use to get more strikes so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to end up casting this let out taking this clip once it's out clipping it on the main line locking into place and letting it slide down to that swivel so once again guys I'm not gonna cast out my weight with my plug attached because I don't want to lose that plug you know I don't really know what's down there the waters high it's not traditionally what we fish and where we fish so I've just got my lead with my lure detached sitting here on the bank and I'm gonna pick my spot now I don't know if you guys can see this in the camera but I've got really fast current out there at about 20 feet about 15 feet I've got some slow meandering current about the speed that a guy could walk and on the inside of the bank I've got some pretty dead current but some pretty shallow water so those fish are gonna travel right up in the seam line between that dead water and the superfast water and that's where I'm gonna want to try to throw my weight okay I like my spot my let is settled I actually casted it out just a little bit further and kind of drugging into where I feel like I'm gonna want to have it fit the weights locked up on the bottom and I'm gonna put the rod in the rod holder everything looks good I'm gonna attach my lure now [Applause] so when I attach my lure I'm gonna drop my rod tip hook it on there and sometimes it takes a little bit of practice but you're gonna want to like hold the rod tip real high and let the lure slide down the line till it catches the current and then once it catches the current through the diving action of the law is gonna pull that line the rest of the way down the way that little dual lock is resting against that bead there she goes she's wiggling good I like it I like it now if everything's going right and depending on the type of lure you're using you should be seeing some of that wiggle registering through the line and up to the rod it's gonna tell you that it's working I don't know if you guys can see that but that lures got a nice little riddle and a pulse and what it's doing is it's telling me that that Laura's down there working great now we wait for fish so while I'm waiting for a strike since they just got down here and I wanted to get a couple rods fishing I casted out that steelhead plug without any bait on it now where it's legal to do so and where it's applicable whenever you have the opportunity to use some bait or some scent you probably should do so one clever way of doing so is wrapping a shrimp or a piece of prawn or a piece of sand trim for a betta eggs actually to your plug and I'm going to demonstrate that for you guys right now what I've got is some of my favorite clean shrimp to millennial Coons right here put her up and I'm just gonna pick you know any particular strip they're all pretty but what I'm gonna do here is I'm just gonna get rid of the head but just got the tail meat there next I'm gonna break off the tip of the tail where I just got that chunk of meat and I'm gonna flatten it out this isn't like a salmon wrap where I'm gonna do a big old piece of bait on there and I'm using a pretty small plug so my bait wrap is gonna have to match that because if I use something that's too big it's gonna affect the action of the plug and it's not going to work right so I've got a small little chunk of tuna shrimp right there and I'm just gonna add it to the middle of the plug now not worried about centering it or making it look all pretty right now what I'm gonna do is take my stretchy thread start it off I'm just gonna give it a few wraps just to get it started once I get that rap started I can then kind of push it around squish it down make it a little more even so the plug runs a little more even add a few wraps tighten it down there as you can see that's getting pretty square on there and then I'm gonna tie off there we go so once again using scent and using bait on your plugs it's gonna be extremely beneficial especially if your plunking plugs chances are the water is gonna be higher the water is gonna be more turbid you know you you want to give those steel had a chance to key in on that bait from a long ways off after all these fish do smell like parts-per-million right so if you can add a little shrimp or a little extra enticing scent to your presentation it's not gonna hurt you just make sure it's applicable and legal where you're fishing so plinking a plug for steelhead is a great option if you are gonna encounter a lot of wild fish or fish that you're not gonna be able to retain the likelihood that the fish is gonna be able to swallow that plug down deep versus like a spinning glowing finish rip or a spinning glue on sand trip and a lot less and hopefully you're not gonna hook the fish mortally or at least do more damage of the plug versus those smaller baits so if you're gonna encounter a lot of wild fish I always recommend using a plug versus a spinning globe and a sand shrimp has been a growing queen shrimp also if you have the opportunity to you can also adjust your hooks on those steelhead plugs so hopefully where you're not gonna hook an eyeball are you gonna hook like I said I had a couple other spots that could be really bad like back in the gills by using just a single hook on the back of your steelhead plug whether it be a Brad's wiggler or maglev that hook is hopefully gonna find this corner of the mouth and you're only gonna be hooking that fish once versus having multiple hooks or treble hooks in the fish where it could be hooked in the corner of the mouth and in the tongue or something that's gonna cause the fish to honestly have a lot of blood loss so if you have the opportunity to fish a steelhead plug with a single hook especially if you're gonna encounter a lot of wild fish you guys like what you see here be always be sure to subscribe to our channel addictive fishing we've got lots of great tutorials and also if you want to check out what we got going on in the interwebs be sure to check out our website at www.tanahoy.com there for you guys and we appreciate every bit of support that you guys give us we'll see you guys on the water [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 13min 14sec (794 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 14 2020