Scorsey's steelhead tips

Complete convert from playing professional hockey to now having a great passion for the outdoors, which includes angling and hunting, Corey Scoran goes steelhead fishing and we can learn something. We started working our way down the river. It got a little muddy because there was a lot of runoff, so the river was getting muddied up, which kind of helps those fish decide to run. We knew they were in the system, and it was just a matter of finding that spot that we could get out and start throwing some rope and bounce some beads. And sure enough, we found the right spot because we got into about 4 or 5 of them between the two of us over the weekend. Speaker1: When you see if it's mud or cloudy water, does that change your strategy on what you use for bait? Speaker2: No, we still use beads. I mean, it might change when it gets muddy. Usually it's moving a little faster, so you got to put a little more weight on it. But mostly you're just out there trying different colored beads and different sized beads. Sometimes it's an eight millimeter, sometimes it's a ten millimeter, and you switch it up from chartreuse to pink to orange to as much as you can. I think when the water's a little darker and a little faster, you can get away with a little thicker line to like a £4 test. And as it clears up, you kind of want to make that test look a little bit thinner. So you drop down a couple pounds on your line. But that's pretty much the biggest part of it. And then it's just getting your good drifts in and finding a spot where you can get your line out into that current, especially when you're fly fishing. It's a little tougher with the banks to get a good back cast. So we got a switch rod and, you know, work on those roll casts and getting them out there and and finding those seams that they're in. Speaker1: It's amazing how he could turn one passion into another. Scorsese having a wonderful time in the great outdoors.