Just an extra 2 cents worth for clear water steelheading- Swinging winter steelhead flies with a sinktip line can be productive. Also, in addition to the good posts above, I suggest using 5 or 6# Maxima Chameleon about 24 to 28" for floats or drifting. I will use a pattern of floating tails pinched off of live sandshrimp, very small egg clusters, &/or small maribou jigs first. Some places, casting a float/bait upstream from below the fish to float down into them can help with stealth. Then I will take off the float & use a careful approach to do a combo of light lead drifting, swinging, & backbounce twitching in the above mentioned type holding water; from above. Sometimes tying on a few strands of pink thread "wiggly legs" on a shrimptail baithook can be helpful for this. Then I will try hardware & plugs. Proper spinner/spoons are good but batting cleanup for me is the "Green Machine"- a size 50/5 dark green metallic Hot Shot (if it's "on", I often will just start with it , rather than disturb the fish with other things they may not want). I will start from a postion well above the holding water & backreel or stripfeed the plug slowly thru holding water. Let it hover a bit near boulders or riffle seams before continuing on down. If it eddies out in a little deeper water slowly reel it upstream- I've had many hits this way. - Steve

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