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Happy new year.
I am entering year 3 owning a drift boat, I feel comfortable on the sticks...(but Im still very cautious) and I likely floated an average of 10 times each of the last 2 years.
I have 8 rods; all set up in pairs for specific purposes. (I usually float with 6 (3/3) set with gear for myself and my buddy or wife.) I mostly bobber dog, run floats and toss spinners.... I pre tie all my leaders (probably have 150 tied in different pound test, varieties of lures etc.) My boat is organized and safe, I have ALL of the gear, I understand the techniques, I have done the research, I grew up steelhead fishing a small hatchery river in CA and I fish very hard. (I grew up bank fly fishing for steelhead, and have been fishing gear for about 4 years here in Oregon.) I watch steel heading videos on a daily basis, I have books that detail when the fish runs are on, where the launches are at etc and I literally spend 80% of my free time researching how to catch these fish.
Bottom line... even with all of this preparation, I am drawing blanks on a regular basis
......Last year my boat saw 2 steelhead landed (natives), another 5 or so lost.
I understand that 2 years on the sticks is not a lot of experience and that I obviously have some progression ahead which will help increase success. I primarily float the Sandy, and will admit that I need to expand to others more often. But, I feel like I should be having a bit more success at this point.
I am open to any suggestions, questions etc that anyone has. Any advice is appreciated, I am just looking to learn.
I want that thing that makes it all come together, but I don't want to wait for it if that thing is time!!!! ........![ROFL :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png)
Steelhead are my nemesis.
I am entering year 3 owning a drift boat, I feel comfortable on the sticks...(but Im still very cautious) and I likely floated an average of 10 times each of the last 2 years.
I have 8 rods; all set up in pairs for specific purposes. (I usually float with 6 (3/3) set with gear for myself and my buddy or wife.) I mostly bobber dog, run floats and toss spinners.... I pre tie all my leaders (probably have 150 tied in different pound test, varieties of lures etc.) My boat is organized and safe, I have ALL of the gear, I understand the techniques, I have done the research, I grew up steelhead fishing a small hatchery river in CA and I fish very hard. (I grew up bank fly fishing for steelhead, and have been fishing gear for about 4 years here in Oregon.) I watch steel heading videos on a daily basis, I have books that detail when the fish runs are on, where the launches are at etc and I literally spend 80% of my free time researching how to catch these fish.
Bottom line... even with all of this preparation, I am drawing blanks on a regular basis
![Frown :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png)
I understand that 2 years on the sticks is not a lot of experience and that I obviously have some progression ahead which will help increase success. I primarily float the Sandy, and will admit that I need to expand to others more often. But, I feel like I should be having a bit more success at this point.
I am open to any suggestions, questions etc that anyone has. Any advice is appreciated, I am just looking to learn.
I want that thing that makes it all come together, but I don't want to wait for it if that thing is time!!!! ........
![ROFL :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png)
Steelhead are my nemesis.