Come join me, Dakota on my adventures while I fish all around WNY for freshwater giants including steelhead, salmon, bass and walleye! While we are no professionals, we still have fun and learn along the way.
First I’ll say great video, always great finding new steelhead content - but I am a bit curious how often the fish are getting hooked in the pec fins or under the chin with that 4 inch gap from the beads.
I only say this cus I’ve seen fish like that hen with the messed up gill plate get srsly damaged just by getting hooked in unfortunate places around their head vs in the jaw. Have a friend who bead fishes rip two lips off his fish while they were in the net, shortens his gap didn’t happen again.
Hey tomaszsmolka3737 sorry for the later reply, I haven’t been crazy active on here lately just because I haven’t been out on the water much since steelhead season. I appreciate your advice, but I do have to say that I haven’t had any issues with poor hook placement yet. I’ve increased the length from 2-3 finger lengths to about 3,3.5,4 finger lengths just because I had issues before of setting the hook on a fish, feel the weight, and lose the fish because of a poor hook set. After increasing the length by that little bit I have noticed less amount to poor hook sets. Like you said I probably should lessen the length back down to 2-3 finger lengths and it would probably be better for me now that I am going into my second year of Centerpin fishing. I’m glad you enjoy the content and I hope you stick around because I will be back on the water here soon and will be posting again and hopefully more. Thanks again! -Dakota
Hello Dakota. I am a Niagara local who is looking to get on some trout myself. I do not fly fish, and know little about it. I have a small boat, and was wondering what kind of set up you would recommend to some who want to try off of a boat, and for people without fly setups. Thank you
Hey! Sorry for the late response… personally I don’t typically fish off boats much and usually when I do, we use a 3 way rig (or bottom bouncing) with minnows, beads, and crawfish. Usually you can use a spinning rod or bait caster for these techniques and there are many videos out there to help with it (sadly I’m just not the one). fly fishing for trout in the lower is a challenge (might be harder off of a boat) and I don’t have any experience with it, I don’t doubt that people have caught many fish on a fly down there. For the lower Niagara I typically use a centerpin (which you could do from a boat too) and float beads, minnows, and jigs in about 9-22 feet of water for steelhead, brown trout and lakers. Hope you enjoy the content, and I hope I could have helped and point you in the right direction Be careful boating down in the lower, and have fun! Tight Lines! -Dakota
