I don't know about everyone else but for years Bill's entertaining articles, innovating tips, and larger than life hog steelhead pictures inspired and motivated me to take the next step and try a new technique, search for trophy steelhead and find my own steelhead paradise holes.

Bill has in the past mentioned that sidedrifting is an affective technique and used to use it in certain circumstances (probably not anymore however) but it's a method that has become so popular that the majority defaults straight to it without thinking of the intracasies of covering a given hole in different circumstances. I have to agree with him though I'm sure I'll get flamed.

One thing that he did not mention in his blog however is the way this technique is often set up with terminal gear. This is something that he's talked about many times and something we should all think about. Double #4 hook set-ups with corky in the middle and bait. May not be such a problem in the Cowlitz during hatchery season but using the same technique on the Hoh in February is a different story. Light leaders may result in overplayed fish and small hooks kill many juvenile salmonids later in the season. Why take the chance?

Anyway good read !