Beginners Winter Steelhead Fishing Rig | HOW TO Setup Bobber & Jig For BANK FISHING

If you are new to bank fishing for winter steelhead, summer steelhead or trout, this steelhead fishing rig is easy to setup and quite effective on the river. This How To Tutorial for beginners will get you on the right track, so you can get setup and start fishing with the bobber and jig setup.
I use this float fishing setup for all kinds of fishing since it is easy to use, and with a couple of adjustments in your weight, bobber, and jig size, you can go from fishing this setup for Salmon and Steelhead down to smaller species like Trout.
I will cover the rods and reels that are best for this type of fishing in another video, as well as get out and show you how i fish this steelhead rig, bank fishing on a river.
In my opinion, this steelhead rig is easy to setup but where some practice comes in is when you are figuring out the depth you should be fishing. This is where the bobber stop comes into play, the further you slide your bobber stop up the line, the deeper your jig will be in the water. Typically, this rig is fished best when your jig is about 1 inch from the river bottom.
knowing Steelhead are most often in that 4-8ft range, it gives us a starting point (fish can be shallower or deeper than the 4-8ft range) I typically just guess the depth for my first cast. If my bobber is rocking like it's dragging on the bottom or stopping, then you are too deep. Just shorten up the depth a bit and cast back out. I continue this until my bobber stands upright. If on my first cast it stands up straight like it should, i will actually make an adjustment and fish it another couple inches deeper until i find the bottom. Then you can just make that adjustment to be fishing in the strike zone. Making adjustments to be in that strike zone in all areas you are fishing is key to putting that jig in a fishes face.
Thanks for watching and best of luck to all of you!
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Leader:
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[@bubbiemotley]

Hey Nick moved up to Folsom,CA to retire and spend the rest of my time fishing.This is twice as hard as saltwater but have been learning from YOU! I watch you instructions 30 times a day and know your dialogue by heart. thanks Nick

[@nicholasyebra1988]

Bro you are one of my favorite fishing channels I’m so bummed my backpack had gotten stolen from my truck I had five of your steelhead spinners in it plus about 3.000 dollars worth of gear really bad day

[@jeffh6255]

Curious to hear how you work that set up on the river. Good videos lately Nick!

[@shaunlehman9158]

Start at the head of the run cast close, middle, far.. take 3 steps down river repeat casting close, middle, far.. repeat process until you reach the tail out of the run..

[@salinaser1]

Why don’t you use the same type of bobber stop above and below the float?

[@edp1801]

Good info. Is there an advantage to having swivels on your inline weight? The Palomar knot instruction is on the inside of the PowerPro box.

[@ry-man4354]

I thought it was great!☝️🇺🇲

[@pnwadventures2746]

Super helpful! Thank you!

[@brianjohnston4207]

Oregon has a leader length reg? Washington was thinking about this but never implemented it but I never saw the advantage of running a leader longer than 4 ft myself. The shorter leader I can get away with the more leaders I can tie per spool. Plus if you lose really long leaders it creates a snag in the hole that just collects gear.

[@darrelljohnson4658]

Good class thanks

[@wilsonflanders878]

Thanks for sharing!Always looking forward to your how to videos ,keep them coming

[@bioden639]

Very informative and entertaining video as always!

[@AnglingAddictsPNW]

Thank you 😊 🎣

[@pilgrimtiger2023]

Thanks for sharing the links as well.

[@tommcclellan1133]

Love the videos, always great info, but man I love your spinners. I had a great coho season using them, thanks! Keep up the great work!

[@brettsuydam7457]

I usually go between jigs during the day, but I gravitate towards nightmare and something with a lot of white.

[@jessejames1395]

Thanks

[@slickwilly4613]

Nick, when it comes to float fishing, how do you deal with surface current? (surface current pulling your presentation faster than the bottom current) It's very easy to hold back the float when casting near, but casting out to a seam 40+ ft in front of you and trying to hold back the float is impossible until your float is 45 degrees downstream. Even then, if you try to slow it down you will pull it towards shore and away from the seam. I have not figured out anyway of doing this so I tried very thin floats that as affected by the top current. that kinda works but they are hard to see in choppy water. I know you like to fish with a spinner mostly, I like spoons, and I gave up trying to cast a float rig farther than 30ft and switch to non float techniques or bobberdog it.

[@nomadnomad8913]

Great video, I have a question. Since you have a jig head on the end why would you add the inline or egg sinker? Is it to get it down faster? I would use that set up when I use power bait or something that would make my hook float up off the bottom.

[@AnglingAddictsPNW]

Thanks, the egg sinker is just for better casting and for getting your gear down faster. It’s definitely not necessary for shallow water but it helps a lot when fishing deeper, faster moving water

[@jamesrey4275]

Hot Chow!

[@Jingling-MelO]

I didn't know Ethan Hawke is an angler.

[@AnglingAddictsPNW]

Lol have you made or seen an Ethan Hawke comment on here before? there's seriously a lot of them lol and I think I'm starting to see the resemblance. You guys got me cracking up over here

[@miguelsalinas1130]

Yo bro love to record content seen u on the rocks a few times I got a few fish this year let me know if u want to go chase some metal and get some content

[@jawsua3225]

Would the weight of the jig not make the bobber sink?

[@AnglingAddictsPNW]

I wouldn’t go any heavier than what I did, but no, it won’t make the bobber sink. It may sit a tiny bit lower in the water, but you kind of have to figure out what bobbers you like best… some may say 1/2oz but with a half ounce loaded up on it, the bobber is still actually floating kinda high. In the end, there is a bit of room to play with when it comes to the whole setup

[@jawsua3225]

@@AnglingAddictsPNW Thanks for the insight!

[@angelinawilliams6650]

How high up do I put the bobber stop?