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my honest opinion and i would apply this accross the board with ANY artificial for any species. shapes, patterns, colors. get it pretty close and thats all there is to it. it doesn't need to be exactly like what your tryin to replicate.
They are a #6 VMC 60deg heavy wire. I think they would land a monster if I ever get one to bite one.
Thank you all for the compliments, I hope they work as well as they look.
It took me awhile to get the colors but they incorporate every color that catches steelhead here. They are plain, no arguement there. I have thought about making some jigs with legs and stuff for a more buggy appearance but the food here isn't a lot of leggy bugs. Any suggestions for additions to them Troutier Bassier that might make them more effective for feeding steelhead?
Steelhead definitely eat! Summer steelhead gorge on eggs and flesh on a lot of rivers that actually have salmon in them and I don't think they could make it back to the ocean without feeding.I'm not sure how much winter steelhead eat but they sure like bugs, jigs, small pink worms, roe and anything else you put near their mouth. :lol:
But do they eat before they spawn? I'm sure they must feast after, but I've never seen anything at all in the gut of any of mine. I haven't had any post-spawn keepers, so I don't know about them.