Catch more steelhead with this surefire technique.

While catching steelhead is not often associated with simplicity, many anglers are learning that the simple method of float-fishing jigs can be very successful.
This is a contentious topic, but I firmly believe the jig offers lifelike movement that triggers both aggression and curiosity in steelhead.

No one is quite sure when and who was first to discover that steelhead love to eat jigs, but most fingers point to the Cowlitz River in southwestern Washington state.

The story goes
that  a  die -hard fisherman was rooting through his vest for something to tempt the river’s tightlipped steelhead, when he came upon a fuzzy little marabou jig, designed to catch pan fish and walleye. No more than a few casts later, the float was ripped under and the river exploded with a chrome - sided steelhead taking flight, a jig firmly stuck in its mouth.

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