went to sportco today and purchased some bubblegum pink sluggos. there were no other soft plastics in light pink so i decided to give them a try. think this is a bad idea(or possibly great)? i've got a few rigged up and am going to try them on the nooch this weekend. any results on drifting the pink worm?? ps also tied some matching baby pink yarn to the hooks to hold scent. hope to get slammed!!

I have a lot of experiance bass fishing with sluggos. I've never tried them on steelhead thought. One thing you will notice is that a sluggo is a lot heavier and denser than a worm. So, you don't need wieght added to cast it. Try fishing them w/o a weight. When twitched w/o wieght they have a killer action. I may have to get some of these to try myself. In slower holding water I can definitly see casting upstream to let it sink down a foot or two and letting it swing down and below you w/o wieght. With the tension of the current on the line the bait should have an awesome action. One thing to add w/sluggos..... Use a swivel above the sluggo. They will twist the snot out of your line. Please post back if they work.

Almost forgot...They've obviously got a bigger profile, they should work better than worms in off colored water.

Aaron

Shhh....killer on a jighead.

I've seen those slugs and wondered if they'd work. I'll have to give 'em a try.

Sluggos have incredible action. Your post got me to thinking.. They ought to work killer for some of our more aggressive strains of coho. They are in bright coloes a very invasive in your face kinda lure. Although to impart the action you might be accused of snagging i would think Coho would rip them up.

Sluggo's do work great for coho. I've never tried them in fresh water, but at Sekiu and Neah bay, THEY RULE!

Rob-
Now how the Hell would you know how a sluggo fishes!?!?

Does Berkeley Powerbait have a website?

Matt

Ryan during the 1990's our rivers were pittiful for steelhead fishing so I pretty much gave it up except for ocassional trips to the Klick or the Deschutes. So I took up bass fishing I am not that great at fishing sluggo's but I can flip and pitch a 1/2oz black and blue rattle back jig with a #11 black and blue pork frog trailer into any tight little spot you can imagine. My best largemouth came out is Silver lake in Cowlitz county almost 9lbs caucht it in October on the previously mentioned Jig -n- Pig. heck I caught a 7lber out of dumpy old lacamas lake last spring. I even fished a tournament once. Imagine being in a sparkly red boat going 60mph up the columbia at 6AM with dense fog and the guy driving the boat looks at you and says " watch for logs"

Rob-
I'll never look at 'ya the same again.
That is actually quite intresting to be honest...

Hey Matt. Go to www.google.com and type in Berkley Powerbait. Hit search and it will give you the address for Berkley's website and other sites that carry Berkley Powerbait products. I hope this helps.

Ron

Hey Rob,

I've got one of them "sparkley" boats. Never hit a log though (knock on wood). Actually, bass fishing and tournements have done a world good for my steelhead and salmon fishing. It teaches you to adapt, and catch fish under any condition.

Oh yeah, guess what cast I was using for steelhead in a small river this weekend?--- A pitch cast. Works great in small water with light baits. You don't have to look behind you for brush either.

People usualy give me a hard time about being a bass guy, but it really has rounded out my fishing skills. Plus, who wouldn't like to go screaming down the river at 60Mph?

Aaron

Jellyhead

The tournament I fished was out of scapoose bay ohhhh probably 6-7 years ago with the Oregon Hawg Hunters. I was dissapointed with how unadaptable that these guys were, at least the guys I was partnered with. The guy I was with the first day ran us all the way op to oaks park to fish a big sand flat on which nothing was happening, which is all fine and good but he really had no back-up plan. We spent the rest of the day chasing our tails. Personally i'd have found a section of rip-rap and at least come home with a limit. But I suppose when I have a boat I can make the decisions.

I have spent the last 3 summers in Montana and got to know quite a few guides there. One of the guides has some bass guys as clients ever year they float down the river like everyone else but instead of fly fishing they are pitching spinners at the banks, they can get to places the fly fishermen only dream of. they catch 100+ fish a day and a lot of them are big fish. They also practice the same catch and release methods as everyone else.

If you ever find yourself without a fishing partner I'd meet you at the Silver lake boat ramp that lake is flippin heaven. And to stay on topic sluggo's work there too.

I'd like to fish silver, I've driven by it quite a few times, but never fished. I'll give you a shout later this spring. I love pitching.

Aaron