what r some good lures/flies/bait to use for salmon and steelhead in lake erie creeks?

Question

just started stream fishing have not had much luck

Answer 1

A few that I always carry with me :

1) Nuclear eggs (yarn flys) in orange/chartreuse or pink/chartreuse
2) stone fly nymphs (black and gold) dead drifted

egg sacs (blue/yellow/pink) check your local tackle shop, they should have a variety of egg sac colors.

If you're using spinning gear, I recommend using no more than 6lb test (fluorocarbon) and red octopus hooks (Gamakatsu) for fishing egg sacs. Tie on a leader of 3ft using a good ball bearing swivel. Place your split shot above the swivel - cast quartering upstream and dead drift downstream, make sure you are "ticking" off the bottom, if not, add more shot, if you keep getting hung-up, take off some shot.
Flies can be fished in the same manner on a spinning rod.

Using a fly rod (7or 8 wt) : 3x or 4x fluorocarbon tippet, fish the flys
or nymphs the same way you would fishing for trout (usually
dead drifted w/ an indicator). You can also swing woolly-boogers
(black/dark olive work well) quartering across and down stream,
most hits (vicious ! ) will come on the "swing".

Answer 2

I live on the west coast and fish steelhead and salmon all the time, I'm sure the same things work over here. In smaller streams or creeks I would either drift some roe through there or my preferred way to fish is with a bobber and jig. Bobber and jig is a killer method over here, especially on smaller streams, rig it up so that the jig is about 1 foot off the bottom. 3 to 7 feet of water is ideal for this. If you want some great jigs just email me and we can work out some kind of deal. I make some great jigs, I currently have several people from seattle down to portland calling me regularly for jigs and have one store carrying them, you can't go wrong with them. But if you don't want mine make sure the ones you buy have strong hooks, it is common for alot of jig brands to have weak hooks.

Answer 3

They make artificial salmon flys which can be trolled using split shot to keep your lure 3'-4' under the water also use with flashers to atract the fish. Steelhead love roe and spinners.
I fished Lake Erie a lot. However, we fished for pickerel, large and smallmouth bass, white bass, and yellow perch.
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Answer 4

I use a very small spinner with a silver blade. I use a long shank single hook really well sharpened. On the hook I thread salmon roe, from eye to barb, I store the entire rig in crushed garlic with olive oil. I use them for about twenty minutes before I change them up with another from the garlic jar. Works well. My personal record is 11 fish one trout at eight pounds and seven salmon in one four hour period largest 33 pounds total weight for the four hours 108 pounds.

Answer 5

I havent fished the Erie streams in a few years, but we always used roe. You can get the eggs and make little sacs out of them using a small amout of pantyhose. Don't tell anyone though, roe kills em up in Erie.

Answer 6

I live in southeastern MI. I like to use pink cleo's with black spots. I have also recently started using a #4 mepps.(Orange and Black) I was fishing for pike and landed to steelheads with the mepps.