I've posted many tips to help fishing success. I will give you another good suggestion. ...

I just watched this new video by STS writer/BB member Bill Herzog (Real Spoonman) and Nick Amato of STS. It is primarily on the best techniques of drift fishing for steelhead. But it is also full of great Olympic Peninsula river and mountain scenery. It is well produced and has a pro caliber narrator that enhance this how to video.

As long as these two top notch fishermen have been catching steelhead (many years) it is plain to see that they haven't lost any enthusiam over hooking one. That's one of the best aspects of this outdoor recreation - it's fun and excitement are forever enduring.

It's not easy to cover both the basics and many of the intricacies of steelhead drift fishing in a video, but these guys have done it! Their film and explanation of reading holding water was particularly well done. One of the things I noticed while watching this is I now often use a little too much lead when I drift fish, rather than using just enough to tap bottom every few feet and keep the lure/bait up off the bottom a little more in the strike zone - don't fish lazy; change your lead often. The underwater film of this in action is great. And of fighting big Oly Pen fish too. The many intricacies covered can make a big difference in your catch rate. It is full of them and you will need to watch it more than once to take it all in. Take notes! Well worth getting for a keeper in your video library (available thru the url below or thru STS magazine).

Steve Hanson