Thanks! I've been watching this video for maybe 20+ times, very helpful, very enjoyable! . It working perfectly when I'm switching to the while zonker fly!
Heading to Erie tributaries in late Oct and last few days of November for steelies...ill have to pick up some zonkers to try along with eggs....awesome video!!!
I always top mine with a few strands of peacock herl that have been dipped in head cement for durability; just to provide a dark back probably not necessary though, looks cunning.
Thanks guys, I went looking for a video on how to tie a white zonker that there was Mr. Blood showing how to tie the fly you were using. Now to get some 1/8 zonker strips and some mylar tubing. Thanks guys. Now if you would just come to Michigan and do some fishing, we've got great fishing here too. On second thought stay in Ohio no sense in giving away our secrets ;-).
I'm just off to the Tongariro River down-under in NZ to catch a few fresh run Rainbows which are like your Steelheads.They run from Lake Taupo up the river to spawn. I thought this year I'd try your White Zonker even though our bait fish are different. Thanks for the inspiration and excellent presentation.
Let me start by saying this is a great video. I love The New Fly Fisher series and Orvis videos. I've learned an extraordinary amount about fishing from your videos. They are always so detailed and precise. So I am compelled to let you know there is an error at 1:58.... The fish shown is not an emerald shiner, it's either an alewife or a shad.... The body profile is much deeper than a shiner and it has the telltale spot of shad /alewife.
Unfortunately the net is no longer produced (netStaff) but we've found a new net that works very well for steelhead. It is the R102 Long Handled Weigh Net with Rubber Mesh bag: mcleanangling.com/collections/freshwater?page=2 and it worked exceptionally well when shooting a new show this past December. The nets are designed and produced in New Zealand but available in North America. You should check them out. Cheers
Great video. I live in Colorado and have never had the opportunity to fish for steelhead. I hope to someday soon! What kind of nets are you using? They look great.
Lake Ontario offers bigger fish I believe but not the volume I am told. I fish Lake Ontario tributaries and do well. You can get big browns (5-10 pounds all day lol) too. Jay Peck is one of the very best guides.
I tell ya, looks like beautiful fishing for steelhead, everything just perfect. But you'll have to excuse my saying that some guides just DON'T do it for me, and some are just perfect. I like the ones who show me the ropes for that specific area, but then leave me alone while I fish!!! I can't fish with someone telling me what to do every second. "Step over there, bring it to the side, do this, do that" !!!!!!! I would say, sir, would care to go back to the car and have yourself a coffee while I fish thank you... But that's just me as a fly tosser. Great channel by the way :-)
To add what guide pulls a fish out of the water let's it beat itself up on the rocks and releases it on the rocks. he seems to have a lot of knowledge but not at handling a fish.
A lot of good tips but I have got to give this clip a thumbs down. The most important tip Jeff is teaching you is how to detect WHEN a fish strikes.....but NONE of the clips actually show the line's movement when Jeff says "right there" 17:57 or "get that". In fact it looks as though the camera man does this on purpose....
Sorry guys, those fish ARE NOT anadromous. Therefor, they are not steelhead. We have lake run rainbows here in northern Montana, and we do not call them steelhead. Plus, those fish aren’t any bigger than a plain old rainbow trout. No comparison to a wild b-run pacific steelhead. Real steelhead, not those lake run fish you’re after. Sorry, but it’s the truth.
Lake Ontario connects to the st Lawrence river from which they have been known to migrate ...and returned...sky....ya...and the species that was used to stock were natural steelhead..so the have their Gene's...so ya
Here is where folks get caught up in opinion. The fish that are planted in the Great Lakes were harvested from Oregon fish that had been referenced as Steelhead. These Great Lakes fish have the exact same genes as those Steelhead that run up the rivers, spawn, go into the Pacific ocean, grow up and repeat the cycle. They are the same genetic material. Those in the Pacific West run into the Pacific to grow up. These run into the Great Lakes to grow up. They are a beautiful and powerful fish.
We also don't have kings, cohos, pinks, or sockeyes. Idk what they would be called here, but they haven't been to the ocean so they're totally different fish
I definitely refuse the advice shown here in several aspects, cause Bobbers kill the game, to me .This style shown here , perpetuates a questionable style of american bobberfishing to me, and has nothing in common with proper nymphing, cause bobbers distract me from sensing takes to actually see takes. Kills the game, cause sensing is so much more precise and subtile without. Bobbers, especially the grenades shown here, spook fish by splashing into water , and kill a proper, fluent cast. Zonkers, in contradiction to the advised dead drift style shown here, in my experience, time to time love a little twitch, for they imitate almost dead or wounded minnows. But dead fish (especially artifishal tackle, imitating minnows) are definitely less attracting than wounded , still moving ones,,...so , to me, leave all bobbers at home, cause they ruin the ability to subtile twitching , as well. "Tight lines" suddenly make sense🐟😁, and americans may call it "euronymphing", but in fact this "euronymping", (better look for" czech nymhing " ) is the real deal.Once , as beginner, I could easily sense takes on 20 m distance, first try. Try!
Fished elk today and watch a guy hammering the Steelhead with the White Death fly. Great video. One of the most informative I have seen
Thanks! I've been watching this video for maybe 20+ times, very helpful, very enjoyable! . It working perfectly when I'm switching to the while zonker fly!
Heading to Erie tributaries in late Oct and last few days of November for steelies...ill have to pick up some zonkers to try along with eggs....awesome video!!!
Good luck!
Thanks for sharing your experience
I always top mine with a few strands of peacock herl that have been dipped in head cement for durability; just to provide a dark back probably not necessary though, looks cunning.
Fabulous Video Colin 👍🎣 . they were some Awesome Steelhead's . Wicked tips on flies and presantinon 👍👍
Thank you for this video... I learned something new!
Thanks guys, I went looking for a video on how to tie a white zonker that there was Mr. Blood showing how to tie the fly you were using. Now to get some 1/8 zonker strips and some mylar tubing. Thanks guys. Now if you would just come to Michigan and do some fishing, we've got great fishing here too. On second thought stay in Ohio no sense in giving away our secrets ;-).
Lol, we have heard that before!
I'm just off to the Tongariro River down-under in NZ to catch a few fresh run Rainbows which are like your Steelheads.They run from Lake Taupo up the river to spawn. I thought this year I'd try your White Zonker even though our bait fish are different. Thanks for the inspiration and excellent presentation.
I have never found food in the stomach of an adult steelhead in Alaska's freshwater streams in 40 years. Still, this is worth giving a try!
Thanks Jeff Great video ALSO love your dot fly!
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Great video. It’s so helpful and full of tips. Thanks for sharing another one with us all. Best Regards from West Virginia, Ken
Glad it was helpful!
I tie white zonker at tube and they fish awesome good !
The swed 🇸🇪
Bjorn
Let me start by saying this is a great video. I love The New Fly Fisher series and Orvis videos. I've learned an extraordinary amount about fishing from your videos. They are always so detailed and precise. So I am compelled to let you know there is an error at 1:58.... The fish shown is not an emerald shiner, it's either an alewife or a shad.... The body profile is much deeper than a shiner and it has the telltale spot of shad /alewife.
Thanks for your observation and you are right.
White zonkers work for small mouth in small creeks too in the spring
Your absolutely right. In fact I have found in tough water conditions, this is the best way to catch them. Thanks for pointing this out!
Great video!! Thank you!
Would these work well for Lake Superior tributaries in MN and WI?
definitely
Love that fishnet - can you please provide the brand and/link for it?
Unfortunately the net is no longer produced (netStaff) but we've found a new net that works very well for steelhead. It is the R102 Long Handled Weigh Net with Rubber Mesh bag: mcleanangling.com/collections/freshwater?page=2
and it worked exceptionally well when shooting a new show this past December. The nets are designed and produced in New Zealand but available in North America. You should check them out. Cheers
What landing net are you using?
Where do I get me some of those white zonkers 🤙🔥
Found some for sale on eBay but sure you can locate them at a fly shop: www.ebay.com/itm/254795893820
Great video. I live in Colorado and have never had the opportunity to fish for steelhead. I hope to someday soon! What kind of nets are you using? They look great.
Jeff Blood sell them (he invented them) and you can purchase I believe thru this site: netstaffoutdoors.com
Lake Ontario offers bigger fish I believe but not the volume I am told. I fish Lake Ontario tributaries and do well. You can get big browns (5-10 pounds all day lol) too. Jay Peck is one of the very best guides.
What kind of a net are you guys using?
Called a NetStaff: netstaffoutdoors.com
Thanks.
You guys fishing for those big rainbows out east ?
does this work on lake ontario tribs as well?
Absolutely, in fact we used this technique on Salmon River and it worked exceptionally well on both steelhead and brown trout
@@newflyfisher ok thanks ill try it out at my local tribs
Bravo.
Just a different style of Euro Nymphing. I will try this with my 5wt to catch a steelhead.
Have fun!
You will break your rod. I fish for steelhead a ton and I use an 8wt. I’ve run into Jeff on the river and he had a 10ft 7wt. You need the backbone
I have caught many steelhead with my 4wt Orvis Recon
nice vedio
I tell ya, looks like beautiful fishing for steelhead, everything just perfect. But you'll have to excuse my saying that some guides just DON'T do it for me, and some are just perfect. I like the ones who show me the ropes for that specific area, but then leave me alone while I fish!!! I can't fish with someone telling me what to do every second. "Step over there, bring it to the side, do this, do that" !!!!!!! I would say, sir, would care to go back to the car and have yourself a coffee while I fish thank you...
But that's just me as a fly tosser.
Great channel by the way :-)
To add what guide pulls a fish out of the water let's it beat itself up on the rocks and releases it on the rocks. he seems to have a lot of knowledge but not at handling a fish.
......ouch my rigs in the rocks! My Abel ain’t going there!
A lot of good tips but I have got to give this clip a thumbs down.
The most important tip Jeff is teaching you is how to detect WHEN a fish strikes.....but NONE of the clips actually show the line's movement when Jeff says "right there" 17:57 or "get that". In fact it looks as though the camera man does this on purpose....
Sorry guys, those fish ARE NOT anadromous. Therefor, they are not steelhead. We have lake run rainbows here in northern Montana, and we do not call them steelhead. Plus, those fish aren’t any bigger than a plain old rainbow trout. No comparison to a wild b-run pacific steelhead. Real steelhead, not those lake run fish you’re after. Sorry, but it’s the truth.
Lake Ontario connects to the st Lawrence river from which they have been known to migrate ...and returned...sky....ya...and the species that was used to stock were natural steelhead..so the have their Gene's...so ya
Sweet now nobody can say anything about the 35 inch “rainbows” I catch on the run. “No way man, they do count as rainbows. They aren’t steelhead.”
Here is where folks get caught up in opinion. The fish that are planted in the Great Lakes were harvested from Oregon fish that had been referenced as Steelhead. These Great Lakes fish have the exact same genes as those Steelhead that run up the rivers, spawn, go into the Pacific ocean, grow up and repeat the cycle. They are the same genetic material. Those in the Pacific West run into the Pacific to grow up. These run into the Great Lakes to grow up. They are a beautiful and powerful fish.
We also don't have kings, cohos, pinks, or sockeyes. Idk what they would be called here, but they haven't been to the ocean so they're totally different fish
Dork
I definitely refuse the advice shown here in several aspects, cause Bobbers kill the game, to me .This style shown here , perpetuates a questionable style of american bobberfishing to me, and has nothing in common with proper nymphing, cause bobbers distract me from sensing takes to actually see takes. Kills the game, cause sensing is so much more precise and subtile without. Bobbers, especially the grenades shown here, spook fish by splashing into water , and kill a proper, fluent cast. Zonkers, in contradiction to the advised dead drift style shown here, in my experience, time to time love a little twitch, for they imitate almost dead or wounded minnows. But dead fish (especially artifishal tackle, imitating minnows) are definitely less attracting than wounded , still moving ones,,...so , to me, leave all bobbers at home, cause they ruin the ability to subtile twitching , as well.
"Tight lines" suddenly make sense🐟😁, and americans may call it "euronymphing", but in fact this "euronymping", (better look for" czech nymhing " ) is the real deal.Once , as beginner, I could easily sense takes on 20 m distance, first try.
Try!