As always, fishing the right bait and the right technique of fishing it, depending on the water conditions, is the key...if all you fish with is one type of lure, no matter what the conditions are, well...obviously that's what you're going to catch all your fish on, but you might be missing lots of fish because you're not using the best bait for the conditions.

I use eggs most of the time, and as a consequence, catch most of my fish on eggs...I fish jigs the least, so catch the least amount of fish on jigs. In selective waters, I fish pink worms almost exclusively...so I catch most of my fish on those.

Head to head last week on the Hoh?

I used eggs and squid on the lower river...a couple bumps, one solid whiff on eggs, and no hookups.

I used hardware a bit above...one hookup.

I used worms the most...four hookups.

Didn't use jigs, though if it was cold out, which is how we usually have water this low this time of year, I would have fished them quite a bit more.

With the warm weather, warm water, and low and clear conditions, fishing the deeper slots by "swimming" my worm through them was definitely the ticket.

Oh, and if I have a couple of guys who know what they are doing, and the conditions are just right, we'll outfish everything pulling plugs!

Fish on...

Todd