BEAD Fishing For Steelhead, EVERYTHING You Need To Know! (101 & Advanced Tips)

[@robbybrant]

We need a east coast and midwest edition of addicted

[@JoeB-c6q]

No, not really…. We don’t need any self-focused marketing personalities in a sport where competence used to be earned by going fishing and making mistakes. What was once a personal experience is now an “industry”. These guys aren’t the worst but definitely a sign of the over-commercialized times…

[@inthemomentflyfishing1394]

Pressure is killing Fisheries..Normal technique barley works or doesn't at all ..shoulder to shoulder no matter where you go..I mean they do it for stocked trout .There's no where to go someone doesn't also show up or there's probably been 9 people in the run before you..Its getting ridiculous

[@jakobsime4190]

@@inthemomentflyfishing1394 I wish we had more fishable water. Theres a bunch of dams that dont have fish ladders and it just destroys the fishing past that point

[@MrDilloncooper]

One of the most professional videos I've seen, clean and no bullshit demos ever! Thanks!

[@JohnMatrixOfficial]

Must important, you need the Hunter S Thompson glasses 😂. Love you Jordan 🍻

[@desocratic]

You mean the Dahmers?

[@gregmaxwell8284]

Nah he's a Rut Daniel's fan

[@clarkriccobuono3903]

Once again great video Jordan. The dog is hilarious, everytime you say Fish On he starts barking.

[@mdaley3102]

I really enjoy your videos and they are very helpful. It’s great to see how excited you get when you catch a fish even though I’m sure you’ve caught soooo many.

[@FlyTech541]

Because of you guys an elevated fishing tackle I wanna catch my first steelhead on a bead I’ve caught steelhead on a fly rod the bead fishing looks so fun

[@WeckerleOutdoors]

20 years ago when I first started bead fishing for trout and salmon in southeastern WI, guys would look at me funny when I wasn’t using spawn or throwing spinners. I had guys a few times accuse me of snagging, flossing fish, because they didn’t understand what I was using or even doing. I’d tell people (the fish eat yarn flies, so why not egg beads). It took years and years for guys to finally start catching on and giving it try for themselves. Somedays I use spawn with a bead, but most days the plain bead will seal the deal on some fish. It’s a good alternative when you can’t get your hands on eggs for spawn sacs, and some days especially in low clear water the bead will often work as good or better than spawn or anything else! Good video and good luck fishing! 🎣

[@victoriaxholmes]

Great lessons Jordan! Always love how you break everything down and make it all super approachable. Tight lines ADX! 🤙🏼🎣

[@Hellion6325]

the dog getting excited when you catch fish is so cute lol

[@Grim-k8r]

Never done flies or bead fishing very cool, thanks for sharing man. I'm about to go out this morning.

[@andrewcable6016]

Came to steelhead fishing 2 years ago as a carp angler and I've found a standard snell with the beard on a loop formed by the tag end and back through the hook eye under the wraps gives me the best hookup ratio of anything I've tested. Been experimenting with tying the hook with a uni knot and the bead between the eye and the knot but both keep the bead right to the back of the hook but also out of the way, and if a fish gets any torque with the first method the bead will pop free

[@dloren2010]

Andrew, do you have any video of this actual set up? I’m a disabled veteran and can barely see anymore with my eyesight and I donate best with videos.

[@andrewcable6016]

@dloren2010 I was going to do some pictures for you but the comment section won't let me put them in, but I recommend checking out any "how to tie a hair rig" video and just replace the bait stop with a clear glass bead and slide the fishing bead down on top of it before tying the snell, hope this helps

[@dloren2010]

@ thank you brother

[@jstjohn57]

I seem to always watch your videos AFTER I get off the river! Good info for this old man trying to figure it all. The info on casting was very much appreciated as I’m a bit wild in that department so obviously an area I need to focus.

[@TheSpeyfisher]

Outstanding Video! Very well explained with detail. Thank you for sharing! Your setup is also excellent for center pin fishing!

[@toddknutson6317]

Oh my god that picture of cam 🤣😂🤣dying right now. Your tutorials are awesome. Keep it up ADX

[@AddictedFishing]

😂😂😂😂

[@jeffb4612]

Awesome video Jordan, your a great teacher and entertainer.

[@fishduckdog]

Beautiful fish 🎣! Thanks 🙏 for sharing!

[@darrelljohnson4658]

Good class thanks Oregon

[@chriskautz439]

This dude is such a pleasure to watch!!!

[@ianmaxwell7525]

Great video, thanks for the hard work

[@Donaldperson7]

Great tutorial! Brother!

[@danteazul2647]

Thanks for the info

[@michaeleckert5133]

Wild to think I keep seeing yall fish down below my driveway and I never run into you guys 😂

[@MIFish96]

What about a video on bottom bouncing beads? I see a lot of guys doing that in the Midwest.

[@Jarrodmontelius]

Buncha dirty bottom bouncers... Those people are TRASH

[@Jarrodmontelius]

THOSE PEOPLE ARE DIRT

[@edp1801]

Nice, I never saw or heard of little glass bead. I always just pegged the bead and cast.

[@blakesjewels]

Really enjoy the addicted videos but Jordan’s are the best. I don’t steelhead fish but want to try. I grew up in the South and fishing shows came on before SEC football. Jordan and company really remind me of those guys teaching techniques and edict for being in nature. Just really need some local small engine shops and NW restaurants advertising. Plus some blooper reels because we are all human and fishing can be frustrating at times. We need to laugh more. 😊 love Lil too!!!

[@bagatti]

If im running a fixed float do i just use split shot to get my bead down jnto the strike zone?

[@stevevaughn9093]

Great and informative, as always. You said you would come back to discuss making the weight from the coil of pencil lead. Since I have about 10 pounds of this stuff I'd like to see that explained. Thanks.

[@expomm]

Thank you for great video and lessons. I live in EU we don’t have steel head but have perch, wall eye pike and trout in heavy current rivers, I always struggled fishing in this type of rivers, usually just fish with heavy sinkers but the snags are a pain. Will try this technique

[@jstrand8338]

Crazy, this is the same basic tech we used in Montana in the late 80s and early 90s guiding on the Henry's fork and Madison🤙

[@Drewsfishingtrips]

I slowly have started to come to love beads almost as much as using real salmon egg sacs, they've definitely become a major weapon in my arsenal.

[@robertjones-iv7wq]

VEERRY good vid!... I prefer 40/4000s more due to a larger drag disk than line cap for steelhead. Line-cap is rarely an issue. Plus the pick-up rate is a bit quicker. I also use Okuma & Penn "bait-feeders", even on chinook. They allow a really nice continuous drift, on steelhead/coho rods, but also on chinook rods. Were I fishing for big pike/muskie, those again would be my spinning choice. Generally however, I prefer my Ambassadeur 4600/5500 C5 Mag-X's or D6 or EXT in 56/5500s but to each their own. My rods are also to 8'6""-9'6", 12#, but I have used a 14' crappie rod rated to 25#, and a 10'6" 'float' rod rated 6# with excellent results. I like soft beads & Gooey-Bobs with bead-stoppers & a bit of white/off-white yarn tied on line above the bead/gooey-bob. If I'm lake-fishing for trout my personal best is 4# on a white, a couple on black, jig-head, small red worm with the same yarn above the worm, clipped pretty close (chironomid/bloodworm) and holy-cow, works very well. On your "store", that Brad's Wiggler in green clown is amazing for trout & salmon in fresh water.

[@HappyKatsFishing]

I love this. Please help more with bead selection. Hard verses soft and when? Why? How to know color?

[@IMKINDOFABIGDEAL13]

I just can’t Stand running a bumper line with any type of sliding float setup. I’m sure it’s great and all but if you end up needing your bobber stop a little deeper and you get to that blood knot you’re screwed and gotta re rig. And then fishing a shallow hole you end up with a ton of fluorocarbon above your float pulling you down current.

[@Felic335]

ADX IS the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AJ7642W]

Other than that there’s nothing to it!! 😂 love the video and thanks for the in depth explanation!

[@ThatPNWGuy2024]

Alright you convinced me to 3d print some high temp resin molds and make some beads.

[@allancrow134]

I always fish 6 to 12 inches of mono on my weight drop and hang it off the bottom end of a three way swivel. The top of the swivel goes to the mainline and my presentation goes on the middle. The reason is to get my gear up off the bottom and into the strike zone as opposed to having it tumbling along the bottom. It rarely (almost never)tangles and I use a lighter mono on the drop then my mainline or leader so it breaks off when I snag.

[@mattwooff]

Hey! Leader length is confusing me! If I’m only fishing an area 4’ deep won’t a 5’ leader be an issue ?

[@j.murphyscontractinginc.3482]

Another great video...but where do I get me one of those jackets?!?!

[@jessejmoralesjr9990]

Hey Jordan nice to see you back on the screen I haven't watched the video in so long the only thing that I have to ask why do you have such a long leader the way and it seems like you have more than a it looks like it seems like you have three different parts of the setup to we're it's 9ft long liter instead of only a 6 ft liter. And Jordan what I'd am used to be doing is have a six 6ft an four 4ft liter put together tied to my main line so I'd would have Ten ft liter that's put together. And then my main line. An I'd use a different bobber. I'd really need something better than before so could you send a video we're I'd could see much better You's putting it together how's it done please. I'd have pore eyes now being 58 almost 59 year's of age. I'd Love ❤️ the video

[@Donaldperson7]

What about the black light green color that glows?

[@j.oatesportraits530]

Do you have any vids of fishing steelhead in Idaho?

[@joshuawood7136]

Appreciate the information as always. Why do you prefer a standard clinch knot versus improved clinch knot? Any issues with slippage on larger fish resulting in loss of hook/fish?

[@N8-tha-GR8]

#wetyourknots, im out here trying! using what im learning!

[@gregmaxwell8284]

Nice Rut Daniel shades

[@ML-ks2lj]

Wish youd have shown how close you can trim thst blood knot in this video. I tie the uni but i like to learn new knots

[@jeredtillman-sanchez1756]

FG knot way better and doesnt cut your thumb or get caught on rod eyes. A little tougher to master, but worth it when u figure it out😊

[@codyrunge8190]

Great video and information, just getting into river fishing, from the Midwest, moved to NorCal, probably a dumb question, knowing the motto”match the hatch” but my question on these setups is what time of year should I be throwing beads vs. Flies or grubs, jigs etc … that I think is the only information I have been missing, from what I have seen the same sliding float method can be used multiple ways ??

[@jon7945]

Would this still be a recommended setup in Oregon with a leader length limit of 36 inches?

[@brianjohnston4207]

I've seen other guys using 20lb 3' leaders with 1/0 hooks in dirtier water but you could go lighter and smaller in different water. I'd be worried that they get spooked by the lead in clear water.

[@lukeweather]

What do u guys charge to fish

[@lukeweather]

And can you bead fish for trout

[@toddwilliamsen1101]

Way we do it, we do not use a "leader" we just use a weighted slip float and a couple of split shots. Less issues with tangles

[@jakobsime4190]

you usually want a leader with braided line

[@markmailander3880]

Yes, simplicity. I would hate to snag up and need to retie all that gear.

[@robertjohnson6128]

I'm just trying to figure out wth goes on the hook

[@danieldoss1987]

JKSU (Jordan Knigge State University) Thank you!

[@WillyFunk-ef6rp]

Dudes please 🙏 old school drift fishing video.... cmon drift till I die let's see it.

[@Nobodybaby78]

Huge question, lol , I know u guys are okuma guys. But what baitcaster u guys suggest for float fishing

[@tomas9666]

I got a curado 301hg and love it so far for drift fishing

[@Donaldperson7]

Why don’t you put a swivel in there to keep it from getting tangled?

[@brianjohnston4207]

60 didn’t travel through my guides very well and kept getting wrapped around my rod tip. Im dropping down to 40.

[@AddictedFishing]

Ya I really prefer 40 lb. - Marlin

[@andrewcahill5621]

Should have made Marlin do the bead tutorial since he hates em

[@AddictedFishing]

😂

[@Nicholasyeahbruh]

That’s honestly hilarious

[@thomaskladar4464]

8 hours later you are ready to go fishing!

[@b00giem4n96]

So real

[@Donaldperson7]

That’s what she said

[@matthewgannon6280]

Great video Im going to go fishing in a trout stocked reservoir and I was wondering if you could make a video showing how to get more fish in a stocked reservoir

[@kennydaiker1980]

Beed fishing is pretty much the same as corky fishing in all reality

[@chrisclearman5244]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DiamondModderHD]

Just don’t float as much

[@LetsFish21]

No bud

[@OntheHook55]

How do you fish a corky under a float?

[@kennydaiker1980]

@@OntheHook55 same way u do a beed,put a stopper on the corky so it does not slide up and down the line,same with okie drifters,that resemble an egg cluster,I also drift fish with both,corky and beads,just something different to have in your tackle box

[@ChrisWhite.fishing]

So what is the bead: a piece of orange plastic? No scent? Nothing?

[@jeffs7773]

After much practice I’ve become one of the premier bead fisherman in the pnw

[@IMKINDOFABIGDEAL13]

I’ve never heard of you lol ❤

[@jeffs7773]

@@IMKINDOFABIGDEAL13 😂 we’re both kindofabigdeal

[@AddictedAnglers001]

Should make a spinner tutorial on how to fish them down in front of the steelhead so you have a more likely chance of getting one. I’m starting to get the hang of it from a bit of Jordan’s teachings and a bit of my ingenuity but would be nice to see someone who knows how to do it down to a science.

[@2bigrivers]

There are definitely spinner videos from Addicted.

[@Jarrodmontelius]

Im bead bombin dez feeesh...

[@Donaldperson7]

That is not how I thought it was supposed to be used? I thought it was something to put in line to do something with the weight? Oh that’s what it’s for?

[@inthemomentflyfishing1394]

Always seems you have the river to yourselves when steelheading..Thats not the case around my way..Its always shoulder to shoulder..Never is there river open with no one around ..Kinda sucks..Makes normal technique not work cause there's soooo much pressure unfortunately 🤷‍♂️

[@paulmoore9679]

1 mil is 1/1000 of an inch. A millimeter is 1/1000 of a meter.

[@shadowzboxedu7252]

First

[@un5ub374]

what happen to your hand

[@KeepSycklids]

That’s way toooo many knots that’s why it’s snapping I prefer Les knots

[@northcascadian7065]

Okuma made in Taiwan? What about the US companies

[@jeredtillman-sanchez1756]

Im sure they would if they sponsored them.

[@Beadfishing]

Bead

[@andrewgannon3856]

Shit I just want catch a steelhead! Been at it since last year lol

[@chadgrant8870]

60+ lb test for a fish that's tops 20 lbs ... seems excessive

[@AddictedFishing]

We’re not using that heavy because of the size of fish. It’s for floatation, mending, wind knots etc. The heavy braid excels for float fishing.

[@michaelniemi5238]

Look at that steelhead green water so fishy

[@jimsmith8324]

Of course he has a spinning reel in his hand, and it's a cheap one at that. Fly guys think beads are too perfect for fair fishing.

[@jamesy1979]

1:50 you have WAY too much line on that spool bud

[@ChadNoticer]

tfw you know you'll never catch a trophy Steelie 😢 why even live bros?

[@markastzm]

Please do a strength test of the double square not around yhe bead. It is one thing to say that it foesnt bresk as easily as you would think and dnother to actually know the break strength