3 Ways To Setup Soft Beads For Winter Steelhead Fishing | Float Fishing Or Drift Fishing

Today i'm covering 3 ways to peg soft beads for Winter steelhead, salmon, and trout fishing. Fishing with beads whether hard beads or soft beads has proven to be a very effective steelhead fishing technique when fished correctly with the right steelhead fishing setup.
This soft bead setup works great for float fishing with a bobber, or used as a drift fishing rig. Either way, regardless of whether you are bank fishing for steelhead or fishing from a boat, this bead fishing setup is a must-know.
I will cover the whole setup in another video so you can see this steelhead fishing rig start to finish, as well as some other winter steelhead fishing tips, techniques and Different setups.
Until then, best of luck to all of you and thanks for watching!
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[MichealBacon]

The Ethan Hawke of steelhead fishing. Really enjoying your tutorials, keep it up!

[gilbertnunez]

I usually just use tooth picks lol 😅 works great and very cost efficient

[dukeumnukem]

So many bead companies out there with different variations, colors and such. The sewing needle kabob of beads is a great idea! I purchased a worm blower to inject beads with scent. Cost is about 2.00ish for the blower. Thanks for sharing!🎣🎣🎣

[boricuasoldier]

My buddy sent me a link to your videos and Using your rigging techniques I landed my first steelhead 🐟thank you and I will be watching all your Videos 🙌

[rodmucio]

Nice and simple setup and well laid out video instructions with good close up lol. Thanks for helping out a rookie like me! Subscribed!

[jordangillespie]

That third one is invaluable to me thank you, I can't believe I didn't figure that out, I actually did exactly that to a plastic bead to actually use as a bead stop. But no I would have never put two in one together, thank you for this tutorial

[puyao]

Thank you for sharing such a straight forward how-to video!! Very helpful!

[asully]

I love the acrylic 3-4mm bead tied in. Never have to worry about a bead or stopper slipping again. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve reeled in my line and the stopper and bead is resting on the eye of the hook as you mentioned. Never used the T Stops for soft beads as I mainly fish hard/incognito beads but it looked like that holds pretty well against the line. Good stuff 👍🏻

[luciano]

Thank you for this video it has helped immensely!

[czarinastrough]

Thanks for this! I learned alot. You should do more simple tutorials in the future.

[greggorywilkinson]

For your first example, I recommend using a sequin between the bead and the bobber stop. The sequin, for the most part, will prevent the soft bead from pulling over the bobber stop.

[michaelhennegan]

It’s great to be the first to give you a thumbs up!

[waymirepa]

Back at it again. Love it brotha. Any good all around bead colors you prefer to get my bead box started?

[chris-heikesigurdson]

Thanks ! your make it easy to understand

[Justin-zsql]

I like the no stop trick. Have you been out much yet this WS season?

[tombaker]

Nick I thought I was watching Ethan Hawke! You could be his double for Hollywood! Great videos! Thanks

[lyndafinch]

What beads and color do you recommend? Manufacturer?

[brianjohnston]

The video on the bnr site says tie a rapala knot to attach your hook to your leader and rest the tstop against the knot. This is for under a float. I haven't tried it yet but it looks like it reinforces the tstop.

[patknight-zbnt]

Big question, do those beats Is float Or go right to the bottom.

[berthelman]

is this also a good technique for chinook? keep up the great content