Pricey bait

Alex Burdick is a very accomplished and highly knowledgeable angler. He recently went on a fishing trip using a certain strategy, and I was surprised pleasantly by his response when I asked him if something isn't working. What do you do to change things up? David Sparks, Sportsman Spotlight trading. Speaker2: Steelhead the other day along the river couldn't get a whole lot of them. We were using a bobber dodging setup. I don't know if you've ever heard of that, but it's like pretty much a slip bobber. Then you have like a plastic bead on the line and then a pencil weight, and then at the very end you have baited hook. So we were throwing those out there and didn't get too lucky with, I guess, all the steelhead that they were supposed to have dropped. They're tough fish to get at the fish and game does drop them in the river every now and then. And so that's what we were after. But they're pretty picky about what works in terms of bait. They're aggressive. They hit hard. And sometimes they're not even really interested in what you're giving them because, you know, their life cycle pretty much they travel up and then just sort of eat along the way because they're looking to go lay their eggs, even though they're going to hit dams and stuff. So they're not going to make it very far, which is why they're purely there for sport. Speaker1: Alex, when they're not hitting, do you think about changing your strategy at all? We had the. Speaker2: Right setup for it. We were also trying out worms, and I'm convinced that worms are probably some of the best bait that you can be throwing for a majority of fish, just in itself. I mean, I've caught more fish off worms than anything else for that matter. I mean, rigs are great, but they're pricey. And sometimes, for whatever reason, fish will go after the worms before they go after lures. Speaker1: And when last I looked, worms were not pricey.