How To FISH Jigs For Salmon, TROUT, & Steelhead.

hey addicts welcome back to another addicted fishing video i'm nick popov and today we're going to be talking about the ins and outs of jig fishing for salmon trout and steelhead so if you like jig fishing for salmon trout steelhead and want to learn more about it stay tuned it's coming up right now [Music] all right guys so we're going to start with the rod and the reel i'm not going to go too in depth on the rod and the reel because we have lots of videos in that we can put in the link in the description that will go over the type of the rod and reel that we're going to use for this application this is going to be more about what you're going to use what type of jig what color a jig and the setup itself so let's dive in so first things first you're gonna need a float for float fishing for jig or with a jig so i'm gonna grab my mustad float these floats work great in low water conditions because they're super stealthy they're they're very small there's not a lot of splash when they land and and they're super easy to mend in a low water scenario so i'm fishing low water you know you may you may do different things for different water conditions and we will talk a little bit more about that so first with these addicted floats they come with a few different pieces they come with a couple of weights and they come with two pieces of rubber tubing so is what you're going to do is you're going to slide this rubber tubing on first and then there's a little hole here in this bobber and i'm gonna go ahead and slide my line through this little hole and i'm going to put my other piece of rubber tubing on okay then next there's a weight system and this is going to vary for where you're fishing and how heavy a jig you're fishing right now i'm going to be fishing pretty light jig because of the current conditions being such low water so i'm going to use both the weights in this now if you're ever in a scenario where you need to use a quarter ounce jig you may want to remove one of the weights they just come these two little gold weights here and all you're going to do is just slide these weights up onto your bobber like so and then it comes with a little plastic groove on it and you're going to slide that grommet up and on so now i take my first piece of tubing and i like to get i like to get it wet here on the stem so i just get it a little bit wet and i slide it right over the tip there with the first piece of rubber tubing so this is going to allow you to set the depth at whatever you want the depth to be so this float is super nice because you can use it as a fixed float but it's also sliding so you're not just set to one depth you can change your depths and then i'm gonna do the same thing i'm gonna wet the stem again and i'm gonna slide my second piece of rubber tubing on there so as you can see you have your top piece of tubing your two weights your little grommet to hold those weights on and then your second piece of tubing now is what that little grommet does that little rubber grommet is if you were to break off or this tubing breaks you don't lose the weights on your float so you're able to you're able to save your float and your weight so it's kind of a cool little setup you break off you still get your weights back and all you need to do is replace a piece of tubing so next i'm going to slide that up just a little bit and i also like to kind of wet my line too when i slide that up because if you if you put these if that rubber is real dry these two rubber pieces are real dry sometimes it will it'll kind of fray your line up a little bit so get that a little bit wet slide that up your line next we're gonna go to the meat and potatoes of the jig fishing right so sometimes jig fishing can be overwhelming there's so many different colors so many different sizes and and you look at it and you just go you know i guess i'll pick this one well there is a little bit of you know um theory behind what you want to use in what conditions so today like i said we're fishing low clear water and as you can see there's many different colors here we got bright oranges bright pinks a little bit of red and white um this is one of the you know people's favorites the nightmare pattern there's lots of different lots of different jigs lots of different styles and lots of different weights so don't over complicate things um in low clear water it's real important um that you kind of you look at your scenario you know you have super clear water you know you have a small creek or a small stream you're not going to want to throw this big giant gaudy jig you're going to want to dumb it down to something that's a little more dull maybe smaller in presentation a smaller weight so for me we have you know the jigs range from 32nd ounce all the way up to a quarter ounce and even a half ounce in some jigs so for this scenario i'm going to pick one of the smaller jigs probably like a 16th ounce or or maybe an eighth ounce uh and and in low water is what i like to do is i like to look at my you know look at the river that i'm fishing as you can see it's a pretty small little stream here and you got a little bit of flow but it's very very clear so i'm probably not going to pick one of these bright oranges or or one of these extremely extremely fluorescent pinks i'm going to go for something a little more subtle now i'm always going to start with something subtle and then work my way up to something a little more drastic so for this specific scenario i'm going to start with a black head versus a white head and i'm going to go with a little bit of black fur and some red and the reason behind that is is i want to start out with something that's not going to hit the water and just be big and bold i'm going to give these fish a chance to come to it and eat it on their own instead of putting something in their face that's going to scare them right out of the gate so there it is we got our jig tied on and then we got our addictive float it's super simple guys this is one of the most probably one of the easiest beginner things you know if you're starting out steelhead fishing or just getting into steelhead fishing this is an outstanding way to start because it's it's pretty simple there's not a lot of technique you just got to get it out there and keep this bobber floating upright and when it goes under you set the hook so i'm going to start out with this jig i'm going to make a few casts and kind of show you guys how i would work this jig through this certain hole so come along with me and we're going to go try to see what we can do [Music] [Applause] what a pretty little fish that's a problem all right guys so i'm going to kind of show you how i would fish a jig in this run from top to bottom so i'm gonna kind of show you the run first and what i'm looking at and then i'm gonna show you how i would break it down so you're always gonna have the head of the run up here okay so this is going to be your your head water where the the the fastest moving water is sometimes you'll have a little eddy running on the inside here that's always where i'm going to start you know a jig can be fished in anything you know fast to slow i mean it could go from water that's virtually not moving to fishing the inside of some extremely fast water like this so first of all is what i'm going to do is i'm going to look at this water and i'm gonna look at the line i'm gonna fish i'm gonna start up here in this faster water and as you can see in this fast water there's some slower water to the inside for me that's ideal jig water you know the the jig is gonna fish its best where there's some sort of walking paste water where it's going to move your jig downstream at a at a slower pace instead of just ripping your jig down river you don't want it moving too fast you want it walking pace to the pace of the river so first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to look i'm going to take a guess at how deep it is so i'm guessing it's probably four to six feet you know in there so i'm gonna set my float get it a little bit wet and i'm gonna set my float at about five feet and then i'm gonna come over here i'm gonna try to stay off of the water whether you're fishing for salmon trout or steelhead in low water conditions the last thing you want to do is walk right to the river's edge cast your line i mean stand right on the edge of the river and cast right on top of the fish these fish can be laying right on the edge of the river so last thing i'm going to do is walk through the water i got a rod and i can cast it for a reason so i'm going to stay back off the water just a little bit and i'm going to try to start up here and then work my way down through the rest there's about three different sections of water i can fish in here but i'm going to start up in the deeper stuff here so i'm going to make my cast i'm going to pull it into that slower water there and this is where the braided line is so important so the braided line is going to float if you have a monofilament line that is just laying on top of this water the mono is going to suck your bobber and it's it's not going to float it's going to get sucked under water and almost sink and grab a lot of water with the braided line you are able to keep your line floating on the surface and mend if you watch i'll lay the line on the water and then i'll mend my line and as you can see it didn't affect my bobbin i'm just lightly bending and keeping tight to my bobber allowing my bobber to float through that rung so i'm going to let this run down into this deeper little boil here and then i'm going to reel up and do it again so as you can see that time i went through there and i wasn't tapping bottom so i'm gonna i'm gonna get it a little bit deeper these fish tend to run in the bottom third of the river so or the bottom you know foot or two of the river so i want my jig six inches off the bottom so i didn't touch bottom that time so i'm going to go six inches deeper and do the same exact task here we go and now if i drag this time i know that i was at the right depth and as you can see i'm dragging so i'll reel that in and i'm going to go right back to what i was because that was about the right depth and the cool thing about summer steelhead and salmon and trout for instance is these fish are going to come up and grab stuff so it doesn't necessarily have to be right in front of their face for them to eat it but if you have a more lethargic fish or a fish that you know is just kind of holding and versus moving you might need to put it right in front of their face so don't be afraid to adjust that you know try it shallower try it deeper but my what i'm shooting for is the bottom foot of the river so this is how i would hope i kind of thought that was going to go down for a second so once i've made a few casts through there this is where the jig colors come into play so once i've made a few casts through here with something a little bit less intrusive before i leave this hole i'm gonna throw something in there that is very very bright and gaudy and try to make one mad because just because you don't get bit on this color does not mean you're not going to get it bit on a bright pink or a chartreuse or or something that's a little more vibrant so what i'm going to do is i'm going to walk down i'm going to fish this through the next little section here which is a little bit faster moving a little bit shallower water but i'm gonna i'm gonna fish it just like i did in that keeping it moving freely throughout there without any without pulling on it or moving it out of the zone i'm trying to keep it fishing without letting a bunch of line on the water and i'll show you how i'm gonna do that this faster current this is where the mending and the braided line comes in more so i'm going to come over here as you can see now we've moved down about 20 feet now there's a big boulder out here and fish love structures so these fish will sit behind this boulder on the edge of this boulder so what i'm going to try to do is i'm going to try to start it up above the boulder and let it run down through the tail out now it's a little bit deeper up in the top of the hole but as it gets down into the tail out it's going to get shallower and shallower so i'm going to fish this just a little bit shallower than i would in the upper section of the hole and i'm going to try to run it all the way down this tail out so i'm just going to flip it out there get it in that current now here's where mending your line is so important so i'm trying to get it to go right by that rock as you can see i'm just letting my line sit off the water there okay so we didn't get bit that time so now i'm gonna move it out another two to three feet and i'm just trying to cover every lane there is on this little section here because you don't know if the fish are going to be in the middle on the edge right on the bank next to you so you just got to make sure you cover all sections so it doesn't look like i'm hitting bottom so once again i'm just going to go in here i'm gonna slide my bobber stop up about six inches and i'm gonna do this again now you see how that line sitting on the water i'm just gonna lift my rod tip up and bend that line still allowing the bobber and jig to float freely down the river the most important thing about jig fishing when you're actually fishing the jig itself especially with a fixed style float like this is that when you mend your line a lot of guys the biggest thing i see people do and i'll show you right here but they go to mend their line and they pull their bobber they're always pulling their bobber and is what that's doing is just pulling you out of the hole so you want to try to when you're mending you want to do your best to mend very lightly without moving the bobber at all i don't want my bobber to move at all when i'm mending and then once the bobber gets below me i'm letting line off of the reel still allowing that bobber to float freely and this is the fun part about jig fishing so this color didn't work so we're gonna go back over to our box and we are going to grab something a little bit more intrusive so something that's going to be a little bit little give it a little more flair a little more color something that they could see it from a little further away the other thing too is we were fishing you know when we first got here we were fishing with sunlight on the water and that can change things i like blacks and if if there's sunlight on the water i'm gonna go with something black and white um you know something that's very you know bug looking versus something that's looks like it's not from the river like an orange or something like that but now that we're getting some shade and some cover on the river and and the the sun's starting to set i'm gonna go with something a little bit a little bit brighter and i think i will go with an orange and white so i'm gonna do something like this so these are our little sinket series here they come in all different colors this is one of my favorites all right guys there is my selection i don't know what it is about steelhead and orange but they love it here's another cool little tip for you when you're jig fishing this is a this is one of those things that's talked about a lot and there's a lot of different opinions and a lot of different you know one guy says do this one guy says do that but you when you tie your jig on there's two different positions this jig can sit in and one is your knot could be up on the top of the jig okay so you have your knot sitting up on the top and then the other is you can slide this jig down and this is how most jig fishermen fish their jigs they fish it with that knot sitting right off the top of the eye like that and the idea behind that is that that jig is floating down river just like this you know coming down at a fish like this through the current versus being like this vertical so myself i do a little bit of both and this is something that a lot of people probably don't do but when fishing's tough and i know there's fish around i will switch that to a vertical position to where i mean a straight up and down position to when when fishing's tough and i know there's fish in there i'll make that jig run like this and believe it or not sometimes that makes a big difference so let's go ahead and do the same thing we're going to make a few casts through here and see if we can't stick one because i know there's some fish laying around in here but this time i'm going to work down in this lower section i'm going to even get lower because we put five or six casts through this little upper section it doesn't look like there was anything in there that wanted to play so i'm gonna get it over on the far side of the river and i'm just gonna slowly let my line down and now see how my line's out in front of my bobber i'm going to mend that line so my bobber is running straight up and down i'm going to let it run all the way through the tail out now another cool thing that you can do which on this river system we can't but don't be afraid to add bait to these jigs okay just because a jig comes in a package like this and don't be afraid to put bait on it put shrimp on it put shrimp tail you know guys use little anise eggs there's lots of different stuff and scent you know don't add scent to the head i mean to the the hair on the jig i would add your scent up around the head and on the bead you know put some procure gel on there and uh usually that will account for another bite or two throughout the day all right guys so hopefully this helps you become a better salmon trout steelhead fisherman with a jig you guys if you like these videos and you like what you see make sure you go down there and hit the thumbs up tap the subscribe button and we'll see you on the water [Music] you

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Length: 19min 21sec (1161 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 14 2020