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Artificial Bait for Steelhead

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4.6K views 9 replies 7 participants last post by  ztkaz  
#1 ·
I was wondering if anyone has any luck with any of these? I was at the local Gander Mountain store yesterday and saw an entire aisle with Gulp baits. I was surprised that they even have maggots that are artificial. I saw some other trout baits that looked interesting with their color as well. Another one that I saw was pink worms which I had heard from another angler this week that they were using. I looked up some videos on YouTube of a guy catching steelhead just using a jig with one of the pink gulp worms and they seemed to love it. Is it better than using live bait?
 
#4 ·
I have caught steelhead on both the 2 inch gulp alive minnies and the gulp alive salmon eggs. They have never been the hottest bait I used any day. They have produced fish several times on the first cast after I fished a run pretty well with another fly or bait.

With the minnies I just nose hooked them and drifted them below a float.

It is very easy to carry a few in a small film container just in case you want to try them.