December 02, 2022
By Matt Straw
Most steelhead anglers know that float fishing is a dynamic method for hooking numbers of fish, when numbers of fish are available. In fact, having pitched hair jigs, crankbaits, suspending baits, plastic worms, and every kind of bottom-oriented bait rig for steel in rivers from Alaska down the West Coast to California and throughout the Great Lakes, personally, it’s difficult to accept that anything can be more effective than a float rig most days.
Unless it’s not being presented correctly. Or it’s not presenting the right bait or attractor.
Set aside the confusing up-is-down thing for a few paragraphs and consider attraction. Long ago, on a river far away...
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