Fished elk today and watch a guy hammering the Steelhead with the White Death fly. Great video. One of the most informative I have seen

Thanks! I've been watching this video for maybe 20+ times, very helpful, very enjoyable! . It working perfectly when I'm switching to the while zonker fly!

I have never found food in the stomach of an adult steelhead in Alaska's freshwater streams in 40 years. Still, this is worth giving a try!

Thanks for sharing your experience

I always top mine with a few strands of peacock herl that have been dipped in head cement for durability; just to provide a dark back probably not necessary though, looks cunning.

Thank you for this video... I learned something new!

Thanks guys, I went looking for a video on how to tie a white zonker that there was Mr. Blood showing how to tie the fly you were using. Now to get some 1/8 zonker strips and some mylar tubing. Thanks guys. Now if you would just come to Michigan and do some fishing, we've got great fishing here too. On second thought stay in Ohio no sense in giving away our secrets ;-).

I'm just off to the Tongariro River down-under in NZ to catch a few fresh run Rainbows which are like your Steelheads.They run from Lake Taupo up the river to spawn. I thought this year I'd try your White Zonker even though our bait fish are different. Thanks for the inspiration and excellent presentation.

Fabulous Video Colin 👍🎣 . they were some Awesome Steelhead's . Wicked tips on flies and presantinon 👍👍

Heading to Erie tributaries in late Oct and last few days of November for steelies...ill have to pick up some zonkers to try along with eggs....awesome video!!!

Thanks Jeff Great video ALSO love your dot fly! j

I tie white zonker at tube and they fish awesome good ! The swed 🇸🇪 Bjorn

Great video!! Thank you!

Great video. It’s so helpful and full of tips. Thanks for sharing another one with us all. Best Regards from West Virginia, Ken

White zonkers work for small mouth in small creeks too in the spring

Let me start by saying this is a great video. I love The New Fly Fisher series and Orvis videos. I've learned an extraordinary amount about fishing from your videos. They are always so detailed and precise. So I am compelled to let you know there is an error at 1:58.... The fish shown is not an emerald shiner, it's either an alewife or a shad.... The body profile is much deeper than a shiner and it has the telltale spot of shad /alewife.

Bravo.

Great video. I live in Colorado and have never had the opportunity to fish for steelhead. I hope to someday soon! What kind of nets are you using? They look great.

Would these work well for Lake Superior tributaries in MN and WI?

Love that fishnet - can you please provide the brand and/link for it?

nice vedio

Just a different style of Euro Nymphing. I will try this with my 5wt to catch a steelhead.

What landing net are you using?

Where do I get me some of those white zonkers 🤙🔥

I tell ya, looks like beautiful fishing for steelhead, everything just perfect. But you'll have to excuse my saying that some guides just DON'T do it for me, and some are just perfect. I like the ones who show me the ropes for that specific area, but then leave me alone while I fish!!! I can't fish with someone telling me what to do every second. "Step over there, bring it to the side, do this, do that" !!!!!!! I would say, sir, would care to go back to the car and have yourself a coffee while I fish thank you... But that's just me as a fly tosser. Great channel by the way :-)

You guys fishing for those big rainbows out east ?

What kind of a net are you guys using?

......ouch my rigs in the rocks! My Abel ain’t going there!

does this work on lake ontario tribs as well?

A lot of good tips but I have got to give this clip a thumbs down. The most important tip Jeff is teaching you is how to detect WHEN a fish strikes.....but NONE of the clips actually show the line's movement when Jeff says "right there" 17:57 or "get that". In fact it looks as though the camera man does this on purpose....

Sorry guys, those fish ARE NOT anadromous. Therefor, they are not steelhead. We have lake run rainbows here in northern Montana, and we do not call them steelhead. Plus, those fish aren’t any bigger than a plain old rainbow trout. No comparison to a wild b-run pacific steelhead. Real steelhead, not those lake run fish you’re after. Sorry, but it’s the truth.

I definitely refuse the advice shown here in several aspects, cause Bobbers kill the game, to me .This style shown here , perpetuates a questionable style of american bobberfishing to me, and has nothing in common with proper nymphing, cause bobbers distract me from sensing takes to actually see takes. Kills the game, cause sensing is so much more precise and subtile without. Bobbers, especially the grenades shown here, spook fish by splashing into water , and kill a proper, fluent cast. Zonkers, in contradiction to the advised dead drift style shown here, in my experience, time to time love a little twitch, for they imitate almost dead or wounded minnows. But dead fish (especially artifishal tackle, imitating minnows) are definitely less attracting than wounded , still moving ones,,...so , to me, leave all bobbers at home, cause they ruin the ability to subtile twitching , as well. "Tight lines" suddenly make sense🐟😁, and americans may call it "euronymphing", but in fact this "euronymping", (better look for" czech nymhing " ) is the real deal.Once , as beginner, I could easily sense takes on 20 m distance, first try. Try!