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I got to reading an earlier thread and thought I would share an experience I had with winter run steelhead.
I use cheaters, I USED to buy them. That is until a friends uncle showed me how easy it was to make them. I figured cheaper to make them and gave me something to do when I don't get out fishing. So I bought some red teardrop corkies, got a small hobby saw blade from Exacto, bought some reflective tape and went to it. I got pretty good after mangling my fingertips and needing to figure out how to get my fingers apart from the super glue a dozen times.
I went fishing with them that fall, tied them in March. I had never hooked a winter run steelhead before then. That day I hooked 5 and landed 2.
Side by side in the river, comparing the store bought and the hand made the action was totally different. Bob and weave, duck and dodge and whatever other terminology is all I could use to explain the home made one. The store bought sat there and spun.
The other thread some mentioned one winged ones, that what got my attention because the one who taught me said to never throw a one winged out until it was done or lost both wings.
There is a drawback, the home made ones will spin around so erratically that at times it will twist your line up something fierce but their effectiveness made it worth it.
I use cheaters, I USED to buy them. That is until a friends uncle showed me how easy it was to make them. I figured cheaper to make them and gave me something to do when I don't get out fishing. So I bought some red teardrop corkies, got a small hobby saw blade from Exacto, bought some reflective tape and went to it. I got pretty good after mangling my fingertips and needing to figure out how to get my fingers apart from the super glue a dozen times.
I went fishing with them that fall, tied them in March. I had never hooked a winter run steelhead before then. That day I hooked 5 and landed 2.
Side by side in the river, comparing the store bought and the hand made the action was totally different. Bob and weave, duck and dodge and whatever other terminology is all I could use to explain the home made one. The store bought sat there and spun.
The other thread some mentioned one winged ones, that what got my attention because the one who taught me said to never throw a one winged out until it was done or lost both wings.
There is a drawback, the home made ones will spin around so erratically that at times it will twist your line up something fierce but their effectiveness made it worth it.
