Hi everybody, here we are in the Clearwater River and today I'm going to show you the basics of fishing with bobbers and jig for steelhead. Now the first thing to do when deciding where to fish and how to fish with the bobbin jig is selecting the bobbin. So in this case I selected a fairly small bobbin because I'm not going to be fishing very far from shore and I'm actually using a fairly small bait and hence the small bobbin. The next thing you need to do is think about how deep it is out there. Right now my bobbers stopper which is this little pink thing right here is set about three feet. So in other words if I cast out my bobbin we'll slip up until that point right there and stop. So I know from previous experiences this hole is about six feet deep so what I'm going to do is I'm going to slide this bobbers stopper up to six feet all the way up here. Now what will happen when I cast this bobbin we'll slide all the way up and we'll stop here and then I know my jig will be fishing about right near the bottom. That's where you want to fish. Most of these steelhead are just a foot off the bottom or right near it. One other thing you might want to notice about is when you're fishing with the bobbin you want it to float about halfway up that way you can detect subtle hits. And so in this case I found that all I needed was these small weights and a jig to appropriately float my weight. Now that we have it all set up we're ready to go. I'll buy the way. You can increase your catch rates by putting a little bit of shrimp on it. One of the nice things about bobbers is as it starts going down the river you can just open your bay and let line out as long as you can see your bobbin you can keep fishing. You can fish sometimes 100 yards down the river if the flows are right. One of the things to watch for is that green cork in the top if you see it's sitting right on top of the bobbin that means your jig is fishing just perfectly beneath it. And notice how that bobbin is floating about halfway up that's perfect amount of weight beneath it. Now we were waiting for us for that bobbin to do something different. It can be easy to pop it up going under shaking. Another nice thing about bobbers is if you set the depth right you rarely hang up on the bottom. You want it to just occasionally touch the bottom but you won't snag up much and you can go off and all day long without losing a bait if you got your bobbers set right. Oh there's the fish! So here we are with a bigger bobbin. As indicated earlier some of the benefits is this is we can use much more weight so we can fish deeper if we want to. We also can catch the cast a lot farther and see strikes way out there where you can't see that with a little bobbers. So watch just how far I can cast this bobbin how far I can see it out compared to the little one. There we are way out there and I can still clearly see the green top of the bobbin. I can see the corkey on top that lets me know the bobbers fishing appropriately. Just perfect catch a fish way across the river. And notice how I occasionally pick my line off the water. We call that kind of mending our line. That's to help reduce the drag of our line in the water. Ideally what we want that bobbin to do is just float down the same speed as the current. So every once in a while you need to pick your line up like this and get it off the water and that allows your bobbers to just keep floating on down naturally. Then again you just can flick your bae on let the lot your bobbers keep floating way down the river. You can fish this especially with these big bobbers a long ways away. Then you do it all over again.