I'm curious to know if there were many folks fishing the PW, here in the USA before I started preaching their benefits. I first fished the PW in B.C. in 1983. I caught my first PW steelhead here, on the Tolt in 1985. I wrote my first article on the PW in 1989.I subsequently have written more than a dozen articles on the virtues of the PW. Funy thing is I have never caught a steelhead on one while drift fishing. of course I seldom drift fish. I just like those training wheels too much.

Were any of you using it, but not talking about it before 1985?

1988...learned about 'em on the Nooksack from a Canadian while I was up there for college...that's when I started fishing dink floats, too.

Fish on...

Todd

5 years ago on the hoh. 3 natives in a two hour span.

Dave
I drift fish them and knockem dead I just add a little something above them to add some vibration.
I have been fishing them since about 1987 when my cousin turned me on to them. He built rods in Kingston for quite a few years.

Would have been around 96?! Had only heard of a few myths of them, and ran across one day in the canyon of the lyre, so I put it on... Dropped it in the river and I'll be damned if a chrome bright summer run that I couldn't even see, came charging across the river and grabbed it.. first cast! Been a believer ever since =) super low, super clear water and a really skinny 4" bubble gum worm got him! Managed to pull a limit that day off of one worm!

I have never fished them so Dave or Todd is going to have to help me lose my PW viginity.

Fsihtale: What do you add for the vibration? For a few years I was using a small plastic propeller. It didn't seem to do much when float fishing so I quit using it.

JG,

How's about this April? I've been asking you for what? Three years? You're on the short list for boat seats, all you gotta do is ask!

Fish on...

Todd

last year with bob on the hoh

Dave -
While not pink the first time I caught a steelhead on a "rubber worm" was at the mouth of the Tolt in July of 1963 or 64. It was on a "Creme de Long" rubber night crawler. Those that came pre-rigged with 3 small hooks, a couple beads, and a little airplane spinner. The summer runs loved them and would come running from a long distance to gobble the "worms". The playing of the fish was a little tricky due to the small hooks.

Tight lines
Curt

Hey tbird can I get my worm back?

Curt: Too kewl! I know your beloved bull trout sure like them too.

I think you may have the record on the artificial worm. Of course I know lots of old timers used to fish the real ting for summer runs. Not that I'm saying you are an old timer!!!

The first time I ever fished one was in late January of "99".Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

Go figure, I was using *real* worms long before the rubber pink ones. Those silly east-sider steelies sure do love night crawlers.....

Once a bait fisherman, always a bait fisherman......

First time I used a rubber pink worm was probably in 2000. Dang near had the rod ripped out of my hand up on The Ranch while drift fishing the PW. Was a real eye opener.

1985? I wasn't even born yet.....

Mid to late 60s (no pink ones then) on that same old prerigged rubber worm with three hooks and a prop. I didn't know what a steelhead was, but I had used them to catch bass in the lake so used it in the creek.

Haha.. Fishaday, If I still had that worm, it would be framed! I take it you've fished em up there? =)

You know the earliest date that anyone posted?

Yeah, I fished them about three months before that.

I remember being down at the Cowlitz just after I had gotten my driver's license. Must have been 83-84. This dude came down with a bass rod rigged up with a drift rig that was rigged with a black rubber worm, and stood next to me. I'm thinking "look at this a$shole.....what a clown."

He made about five casts and walked out with a pair of chrome 3-salters.

If I had a clue back then, I would have beamed in on what he was using and started using them myself. But nooooooooo. I didn't try one myself for another 6 or 7 years. Idiot.

I fish the worm now on a jig. Berkley makes these cool little 3" units that come linked together on a string. You tear one off and thread it on the jig hook and it makes a nice little enticement.

You win

I caught my first and only steelhead on a red/white bobber with a pink/brown earthworm in 1975. I've tried pink worms and bobbers since with no luck. Even put them on jigs. Gotta stick with what I know works and that is drifting bait. Maybe my neighbor Sol will teach me how someday.

I had 3 worms with me that day. Lost 2 on snags and the last one was gobbled up by this fish



Parker said "Gawwddammit, Justin, give me one of those worms!"

Kid Sauk says "This is my last one!"

Parker says "I don't care let me use it!"

Kid Sauk says "Okay, fine, take it!"

Parker clips off his corky and yarn, ties on the *only* remaining pink worm and proceeds to get a plug style takedown without hookup.

Kid Sauk, being the genius that he is, decides that he doesn't need a pink worm to catch fish so he ties on Parkers corky, yarn, and slinky that he left on the bank. Kid Sauk then ends up with this



All caught wayyyyy back when Parker was a "bank whore" and he whored me for bank access He whored me for bank access and the son of a beeyotch whored me for my last worm! I feel so violated!