im getting a 16 foot drift boat next week and would like to start going to some differnt river this winter to steelhead fish. i live in newport on oregon coast all i fish. just rite now is the siletz and alsea. got someone wanting to take me to santiam. looking for good info on rivers to drift for winter steelhead

We fish mostly the Alsea and it has plenty of good drift boat water. The Siuslaw is another good one. Also north of you are a few great rivers. Also the Yaquina River in your back yard has winter steelhead!

yes the yaquina and big elk do get some steelhead. ya i live part time at mile post 25 on alsea.

did u do very good this year on alsea/ only had a chance to fish a little bit from bank this year. relly back into fishing agin and got time this year

We did not do that well this year on the Alsea. We expected to catch more than we did. How did you do?

never hooked any heard it was a poor year from everone. i talked to quite a few boats going by my place with 0 fish. think its gona be better this year?

what your favorite ways to fish steelhead on alsea. never haveing a drift boat before im pretty exsited to get drifting. seems these days all i wana trow is a bober and jig. used to do well drift fishing and learned on spinners. never landed one on a pink worm yet hopeing to this winter

We catch 99% of our steelhead on jigs, pink worms and roe under floats. The other 1% we catch on spinners and drifting pink worms or roe.

unever pull plugs? ever trout fish it made a nice drift in poontoon boats last week caugth about 30 in a cople hours bigest being 14inches

whats your favorite drift on the river?

We don't have a drift boat so we are stuck on the bank most of the time! We got into steelhead every trip out if I remember right, we just hoped to get more than we did. I think our best day combined was 6 total and a few missed, much worse than the year before. We fish the upper river until it gets low and clear then we move down and fish the lower section with floats.

gotya i dnt fish past fallcreek ever. just stick tot he lower river. got quit a bit of priveit property to myself to bank fish on

Thats pretty cool. Lots of good water down there if the water gets low!

it never gets low lol never geta fish it seems like when i got time river way to high

any alsea hot lures. u wana tell me about or they too secreat?

We don't have any secret lures. You can see everything we use in our videos. I wish there was a hot lure, but it changes from day to day what they want to hit.

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