Little cleos!! Little cleos!! Fish then low with a slow-moderate retreiving speed.... in the 1/4oz size!! Brass works best for me in mosr conditions. Thomas spoons in the 1/4oz size!!! All colors work good for me. Spinners in the #1-4 range, i rarely use a #4 spinner. Fish spinners SLOW and DEEP!! Tumble the spinner on the bottome but keep the blade spinning just enough to get the right action, slower the better. Trout like a faster spinning blade. Steelies and salmon love slow.
Use no weight!! You dont need xtra weight.... Mainline... Snap swivel (tied to mainline), The (snap) on the swivil makes for easy quick gear changing. make sure your swivels are black and strong!!
Again... Go for those two books they mentioned above!! They told me to get one... what did i do? went and bought for like 15 bucks... "spinner Fishing For Steelhead, salmon and trout, by jed davis... such a good one to read and you will learn a crap load!!
One thing i took the time to do last year while fishing lures... I casted every spoon/spinner i had into every type of water.... Boily, riply, frog water, fast water with rocks and big rapids. During that time... I read what the action of the lure was doing in all different types of water, all diferent seems and whatnot... Once you get that down, you can start jigging your lure with the retrieve in the diff currents... Makin for an oustanding hook to catch ratio.
I feel by doing that it gives you more of a feel to the river/water you are fishing... I fish water that most drift fisherman and other fisherman over look...! That will bring great success... I prolyl lost about 300dollars worth of gear while doing this tho!
