02-20-2018, 07:02 AM
You have been unlucky. Your method is what I use mostly. Last year was a bust with the high water only one good hole was producing. I generally fish the area between the Pahsimeroi and Cronk's canyon. Best fishing is from March 20th to April 10th. Fishing is tough in that area in afternoons because fish move to fast and are not territorial when water warms during that time however. You don't need a guide most good fisherman can outfish them 3-1. Drift a pegged 10mm corkie orange red or pink at current speed and you will be very successful as well. I have probably caught two or three hundred fish in that area over the last ten years. Best fishing the first of March 1st-20th is just below Salmon and corkies are my favorite. I like jigs a lot but single trout beads below a bobber with the split shot four or five inches off the bottom to avoid false pull downs are always effective. I run two and a half feet of leader to a barrel swivel with a split shot just above the swivel and eighteen inches of leader with the blood dot bead rotating above a blood knot two and a half inches from the hook. You can peg it as most do and be as effective. The Oregon Cheese and Montana Roe 10mm are my favorite colors but I have caught over 500 steelhead on a 12mm Mottled tangerine Blood Dot.
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