Drift-Fishing Techniques: Tutorial
This fishing video has quick, and easy, details of proper drift-fishing techniques while avoiding inadvertent snagging methods known to poachers as flossing.
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Ya, I’ve got an old reel, it’s a garcia cardinal 157 bait casing reel and it clicks loudly upon retrieve and clicks once really loud when the bail falls back, there is no switch to quiet it on this older model. Not exactly stealthy for summer when the water is low, need another. My orange float is too visible for the fish too i think, gonna find a brown cork one or something more natural colored. Im also gonna use 10 lb. leader instead of 15 next time too. Thx for the response Tim.
@drakehemlock That might be the problem. If you can see the fish then they can see you and that’ll be enough to keep them off the bite. It’s called fishing pressure. Make a mental note of where the steelies are exactly and then get close to the surface. Cast out and then drift through again. I’ve done this trick countless times and when all others fail this fishing trick works. It sounds too simple but it’s dandy.
Been fishin’ for steelies on the North Santiam, , thx for the info. Im doing everything right, just cant get to em bite. Tried everything, I see em swimmin’ right through, sigh. Thx for the tips
@TripleDubFishing I know…habitual snaggers are easy to spot and they all seem to try and convince everyone around them that they’re not! It’s the old hand-in-the-cookie jar. The best weapon against snaggers is a camera.
Drift-fishing does not have to be trial-and-error. Take a little time with it and it can be mastered within the span of a single fishing trip. Mike, the guy in the video, turned out to be one of the best drift-fishing anglers I ever met with a hook-to-land ratio of over 87%!
Wow that was some serious snagging, did he just have no idea? Was he new to this? It just blows me away, nice to see him actually set the hook correctly at the end, although the end of the drift hookset is almost as bad of a snagging tell.