Originally Posted By: stickfisher
I found out that the guys were catching fish in shallow water and were casting, drifting from 11-1, then slowly retrieving. The water I'm fishing is a bar on a compound corner. There is fast water across and slow water near, and frog water directly below.

I went out last night with my daughter and tossed all three styles. The water seemed too slow for the daredevil style. The 1/2oz steelee has really good thumb and I was hitting bottom the last 1/3 of the drift. The rvrfshr 2/5oz might have been baby bear's porridge. I didn't spend as much time as I wanted with it, my little girl decided to go after some leaves in the river, got wet, so I took her home before she got cold.


Can't remember what Zog said, but.......Someone else mentioned that the wider the spoon, the faster they rise. This is true, but due to the same physics, the wider the spoon, the less pull from the current they need to wobble. Thus, a teardrop spoon will work a lot better when cast slightly upstream and allowed to drift down along side you with minimal tension on the line. It's a lot like drift fishing. I took my biggest summer steelhead this way in a run we had pounded for an hour with other lures. A Little Cleo will be dead in this situation. The longer-shaped spoons are better for swinging in faster, deeper water.

The run you describe above sounds like a great Stee-Lee run.......
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