How To FISH A Double Bead Fishing Setup For Steelhead.

what's up everybody out there welcome back to yet another addictive fishing tutorial my name is jordan kennedy and today we're talking about one of the most versatile and effective ways to go out and catch salmon trout and steelhead if you guys want to learn more about this double bead setup stay tuned it's coming at you right now [Music] so first things first i want to talk about this double setup is check your local regulations on your fishery that you're fishing and make sure it's allowed to use two different hooks in like canada or different places in different rivers around even the pacific northwest or even the midwest or east coast you may not be able to use two hooks on your local river so this editorial is good knowledge for you if you travel and go somewhere else but it might be illegal on your local river so be sure to check that first but the obvious reasons why we love this double setup is because you have two presentations in the water at all times being able to use different size beads yarnies baits or anything of the sort and you have two different presentations top and bottom going down the river at all times can make you that much more effective on staying in front of those fish and giving them something that makes them want to bite first things first what i would say is the most important part of your setup when you're using these double beads because you're using long leaders is your rod set up what i have here is a 99 okuma guide select pro any rod that you can use is fine as long as it's over nine foot and that's going to help you in the adaption of that float fishing you want something that's long enough to make good line men's which we'll show you here in a minute and be able to correctly drift that presentation down the river so that you're staying in front of those fish with both of those setups so i have a 99 okuma guide select pro reeled with a c40 kymar by okuma again again i like the c40 especially if i'm being stuck on the bank because i'm gonna have to let a lot of line out and i can fish a long distance with this bead presentation like this because i'm float fishing i have that reel lined with a 40 50 or a 60 pound braided line i prefer the high vase line so that i can see it out on the water and i can make sure i'm correctly mending my line throughout the drift it's not imperative that you use it but i like to always tie a 15 to a 20 pound fluorocarbon bumper to the end of my braided line that way my line can slide smoothly through my bobber just like so and it allows me to make those bends and have a lot less visibility from that line down in front of those fish so a 15 to a 20 pound fluorocarbon bumper is key in my opinion but it's not detrimental in this setup the way i connect that is with a little blood knot here so i tied that blood down you can find those knots in the different sort of knot styles on our tutorials on addictive fishing here but i tie a blood knot with that 15 to 20 pound fluorocarbon and i run that all the way down to my bobber stop and what you see right above this this blood knot is what just that is that's that bobber stop there just a little rubber stopper uh there's a few different companies that make them but this is that little rubber stopper comes on a nice little piece of wire slide your line through pull it tight and you're ready to go a normal bobber stop just a thread stopper or any kind of dacron line that uses that as a stopper can work just as well the next step is to have those beads that come with those bobbers on top of that bobber so that this thing doesn't slide past your rubber stopper so you can see the effectiveness of that little rubber stopper a little bead hits it first big bead keeps this from going over that little bead and then i have my float itself there's two different styles of floats that you can use for this bobber dog setup really anything will work i've seen people use cork floats i've seen people use these normal floats these inline i've seen people use fix floats but really the best way to fish these two setups is either with normal foam float this is a 3 8 you can go all the way up to half ounce maybe even bigger if you're fishing some big water with some big leads or with one of these little chubby floats and these are for what we call bobber dogging it's a method that works from the bank we also have some more tutorials on our page addictive fishing here it shows you exactly how to bobber dog but these two floats are what are best for this adaption this one has a nice flat bottom so it actually catches the current and pulls your stuff along this one here is a little more versatile where you can fish it in all kinds of different water whether it's shallow deep and you can adjust that up and down to not be getting snagged on the bottom because the key with this setup is to be on the bottom at all times what i do after i run that through and down to my 3 8 ounce or a half ounce bobber is i go right to just a normal barrel swivel and a clevis what i've done here instead of using a three-way i just taken a normal barrel swivel with that clevis i tie my heavy line my 15 or 20 pound onto the top end that has the clevis on it so that if i'm getting snagged i'm pulling on that end with that heavier line than i am with my leader line that's on there so i have that clevis i have just a little quarter ounce dave's tangle free weight you can use lead you can use just a little pre-formed uh little little bell weights that you can also get at any store but a quarter ounce all the way up to a half ounce all the way up to three quarter ounce can work really good for this depending on the kind of water that you're fishing and we'll talk more about that when we hit the river what i have from there is just about a two and a half to a three foot leader down to my first bead and this is 12 pound fluorocarbon depending on where you're fishing again you can go all the way down to four to six pound but i use a little bit heavier line than i normally would with like a jig or a float presentation because i don't want to keep snagging up which i'm going to be doing naturally by using this method and breaking off these valuable beads that i have on here so i'm going to show you really quick a couple different ways to peg your bead what i do a lot of times if i have the right size beads is i just do a little bead knot there's a lot of different ways to do this you can tie glass beads in line to your line so that your bead can't slide past it you can use those same stoppers that i use for my bobber stop below the bead so that it won't slide down to your hook because the gap in between that bead and your hook is imperative to being successful in landing the fish and we'll talk about more about that in just a second but what i mean by a bead knot this is super simple this is something i do and i you have to make sure to use semi heavier line to do this or else it will break when you do hook up on a fish so i have my bead free sliding on my line here all i do and this is a little alaska trout trick is i take my line and i feed it through my bead two times so i'm gonna go through it once i'm gonna go through it twice i'm gonna take back what i said there about two times and i'm actually gonna do it three times so i have my line through there once i'm gonna go through there twice i'm gonna go through there a third time just like this and then i'm going to pull that thing tight and you can see obviously because i've done that that bead can't go anywhere and it's stationary if you're using a soft bead or you're using some sort of of a hybrid bead like an incognito bead you're not going to be able to do that so you're going to want to actually put a t-stop or one of those little rubber stoppers down below that bead so that doesn't slide down onto your hook so i've done that i'm going to take my first number four hook anywhere from a number two to a number three to a number four hook is what's perfect for this i don't like to go any smaller than that because i want to be able to hook those fish and two i want to be able to hook those bigger fish so this is a size four mustad bead hook i'm gonna slide that right through and for me i just do a normal fisherman's knot you can do a any sort of egg loop on this or any other what method that you want where you can actually connect bait or different things like that but i'm showing you my quick and easy just to get two beads on here and get them in the water this is what i do if i'm just exclusively fishing beads here there's a million ways to do this but this is my favorite quick easy and efficient way so i'm just doing a normal fisherman's knot i'm gonna pull that tight just like so i'm gonna trim my tag here and there we have it we have just a perfectly placed 12 mil bead now that's that top leader i like to have that top leader about two to three never more than about four feet long if you go more than that it's going to become a very big mess trying to cast this and it's going to create a lot of tangles and a lot of wind knots as you cast through the air so keeping that first leader in between three to four feet is what's crucial here so i have that same length leader for my second bead and i'm just gonna tie that directly to the end of that number four hook on my first setup so this setup still connected to that dave's tangle right here i got about a three foot leader and then i have my other bead here that i'm going to connect just right to the very end of this here it's very very simple this is one of the easiest ways to set up very quickest and again i'm tying just these normal knots there's a few different knots you can use to attach this setup to your other hook but i like to go right to the end of the hook here grab that i'm going to do six wraps seven wraps right to the end of the hook make sure to wet my knot just like so i'm gonna tie that right to the back of that hook right on that shank like that and that does the trick you guys you might think that that's gonna cover up that hook gap a little bit but i catch just as many fish on that top bead as i do the bottom view so as you can see here my bottom bead is a lot smaller than my top b the top one's a 12 we can use any sort of combination of size of beads here i've seen people do double 20 mils i've seen people use 12 mils and then 14 mils but i always like to have my biggest bead on top so you can see here i put my 12 ml bead on first which is closest to my weight i have another leader down to this 10 mil bead here and i like to go bigger to smaller all the time that actually helps your casting and it fishes a little bit better while it's going through the water and when i use these smaller beads like this i actually like to be a little lazy once again it's another alaska trout trick that i use all i'm going to do and again because it's the small bead and i don't need to put a bobber stop and if i put a toothpick or anything in there you're going to be able to see it's gonna look funny so i'm gonna take that i'm just gonna do a triple overhand here i'm gonna take my my hook run it through my line three times just like so and bam there you have it just like that and that's going to hold that bead in place and it's not going to slide around and that only works on those smaller beads so if you're using anything over a 12 mil or a 10 mil you're going to want to either one at a toothpick use a rubber stopper or any of the little bead pegs that are actually rubber themselves so that you're not hurting your line but i personally like to do that bead knot a lot that keeps it in place and it works really really well if you have fresh lines so if you see that getting warped like you can see that line here i've been using this rod all day so my line's a little stressed out that i would cut off i wouldn't use that this is what it should probably look like running through your bead all the time but if you get that warped in your line you get that little bit of a fray you're going to want to cut that off and add new leader and run that back to the bead slugs properly or again just add that normal stop whether it be a bead peg or some sort of stopper below that bead all right so that's the basics of the full setup there's a lot of ways to skin a cat in this situation guys there's a lot of different ways one to peg your beads there's a lot of tutorials that we have on our page that talk about bead fishing so if you guys want to learn more be sure to ask questions down here below and comment below with this video and be sure to try to answer them or go back and look at a few of the other how to fish bead tutorials that we have but we're just talking about that basic double set up today so i have 12 mil on top of a 10 mil we're going to step down to the river here and we're going to show you the very basics on how to actually get this in the water and be properly fishing so now that we're standing by the river i'm going to talk about the most important and probably the hardest part of fishing the double bead setup and that is the casting of it this is where i see people struggle the most whether it's my clients even myself when i fish this stuff a ton i still have problems sometimes getting this line tangled when i cast so i'm going to show you a couple tricks here that are going to make it easier on you to get this stuff out there first things first i'll have a lot of people ask me how do i know how deep to fish i like to start shallow and then work my way deeper this is the method that you do not want fishing suspended you want both these beads down near the bottom of the river or even dragging along the bottom which is why we use these over weighted bobbers so that they can catch the current and pull our presentation down the river first things first when you're fishing a bead 90 percent of the time you're going to want to make sure it's in some sort of moving water something that's at least walking speed or faster it's not a good method to use in super slow or stagnant water because those beads are down there drifting around around each other you want them to be able to drag along the bottom with some current and completely fish through that area that you're fishing so first things first we're going to test out our depth i'm going to start shallow here but what i'm going to start with is talking about the cast the way i want to cast this and always try to remember these methods it's going to make it a lot easier for you and it's what i teach people every day when i'm out here on the river and that is always start with your rod tip down river it's a method that's obviously easy to get tangled in the bushes and everything behind you but what i always like to do is accentuate my backhand cast and what i mean by that is i don't want to be casting overhead throwing over one shoulder my up river shoulder because so whether you're on the right or the left bank of the river you're going to start with your rod zip pointing down current and that's going to help you use that right formation in that right form to throw it out there and allow your beads not to get tangled so first things first i'm going to check myself make sure i have a nice clear boundary i'm standing on this log so it's a little easier today but i'm going to make sure i have a nice clear area to be casting from and i'm going to put my rod down river i'm going to turn and i'm going to identify where i want to cast to and then i'm going to go a slow to fast motion loading that sensitive tip of that rod loading that rod ending high in the air and sending that thing all the way across the river to where i want it to be i'm going to start close i'm going to go to the middle and then i'm going to go far when i use this method i always want to try to start at about 45 degrees upriver you don't want to cast it straight in front of you and let it go away unless the hole mandates that unless you only have that spot to cast you want to be able to cast up allow that stuff to sink down to the bottom and then start working its way past you in front of you so start with my rod tip down river i'm going to turn identify where i want to go i'm going to throw that thing stopping my rod tip high and at the end of my drift i'm going to stop my line and make that thing go tight the key to that is while that's flying through the air you have both your beads going towards each other at the same point when you grab your line they both straighten out go flat and then fall perfectly on the water best thing to do is try to keep your eyes on those beads as they're flying through the air to make sure they're not tangling because the worst thing to do is be sitting here fishing a 50 60 yard drift and have your beads tangled up and not even fishing the whole time you're wasting valuable fishing time while that thing's floating down the river if it's not correctly fishing so i'm going to show you that again and it's very very important it's something i stress to everybody that does this and the key point to that is one starting slow to fast ending with your rod tip high in the air and then stopping your line at the very end of your cast so that your stuff lays out flat once again i'm going to do it for you again i want you to watch my hands when i do this everybody i'm going to do tip down river up high i'm gonna identify my target i'm gonna cast it and at the very end i'm grabbing my line and now you can even grab it and pull against it a little bit to make sure you get that tautness in your line you don't want to let this stuff just hit the water and pile up on itself because that's where you're gonna get those tangles so every time you cast identify a safe casting spot look back identify your cast cast is that 45 up river and again three quarters of the way through that cast as soon as it's about to hit the water you're gonna grab that with your hand up here on the on the rod shaft or right here on top of the bale and stop that line so that it lays out flat and hits the water perfectly okay so now that i covered that basics of actually casting it i want to show you what it should look like once it's out there and how it should properly be fishing so first here i know i'm not fishing deep and i'm going to shallow up a little bit so that you guys can see what an improper drift looks like so i'm going to cast out here nice and close what you don't want to see when you're bead fishing is your bobber standing straight up and down like this that bobber is standing straight up and down it's obviously not hitting the bottom you're not getting any drag from the bottom of the river and your beads are suspended up off the bottom out of the strike zone of those fish any egg or anything that emulates what these beads are it's going to actually be rolling down the bottom of the river that's that's the point of it is it's hitting the bottom it's like you're looking like it's a natural presentation like it's eggs so you want them rolling down the bottom and hitting the bottom but there's a fine line in between that if you're using a small enough lead and you have sort of hole where you can drag that presentation a long way so the small piece of lead you can over accentuate the depth of that drip but if i'm fishing this this setup where i'm fishing here to here short little dress i want to be down and in the strike zone as fast as i can and be effectively fishing that little distance that i have i'm going to make sure that i have a proper depth so i started shallow i'm going to go a little bit deeper here i'm going to add about a foot i'm going to make that same close cast and i'm going to see if my bobber is doing anything different than it was at the beginning so as you can see after that cast adding about a foot of line now my bobber still standing straight up and down but it has a little bit of a lean to it so i'm going to bring that back in i'm going to add another six inches of line and this is key guys this is how you catch fish this is how you get in front of those fish and guarantee you're gonna get them i'm gonna add about another six to eight inches of line here i'm gonna cast this back out and i'm gonna wait to see if my bobber is acting any different there it is so now you see that that bobber is pointing down river it's dragging it's catching the surface current on top of the water and that current is actually grabbing that bobber and slowly dragging that presentation down through the strike zone so that's the perfect drift you guys and this is why you want that moving water because you want that stuff hitting the bottom you want it dragging along and getting down in front of those fish's face but you also want it deep enough and dragging hard enough that it's getting that slower presentation than the current okay so the next step we don't want to be super attentive to this bobber presentation while it's floating down like a jig or anything we want to leave a little candy cane on the water the way our friend nick popoff says it you want a little bit of that line drag so that you can actually have it pulling that bobber down through the current if i if every time i mend here if i'm on bottom properly if i mend which is lifting my line up and putting it above the bobber and i don't have that 10 foot of slack on the water i'm going to end up snagging every time i go to mend because i'm pulling all that resistance off of the water and putting it above the bobber which allows it to go too deep and snag up again so leaving that little little belly of line the little candy cane of line below your bobber is what's going to allow this thing to properly fish and get a nice long drift down below you all right everybody again if you guys want to use this double bead method be sure to go back to this video leave some comments below if you have any questions and really take to heart the certain things that i said here and it will allow you to catch more fish having two presentations in the water at all times is gonna make you a better fisherman and it's gonna allow you to catch more fish if you guys like the stuff that you saw today and you wanna learn more about how to fish for salmon steelhead and trout go up and click this link to this next informative video that we have go down here hit subscribe turn on those bell notifications drop us a like and do not forget to comment below and you can be the comment of the day like this guy right here thank you so much for tuning in guys you stay fishy and we'll see you out there

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Length: 18min 8sec (1088 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 30 2021