Bobber Dogging is fast becoming a preferred technique when drift fishing from a boat for steelhead. Detailed in this video, it is a float fishing system that uses a specialized bobber, unique weights, and a bait and bead combination for lures. Host, Josiah Darr, and guide, Mike Kelly, go over all the details of this steelhead angling system they have refined. The show you the gear they have come up with and the way they fish it to fool wary steelhead. When steelhead are hard to catch this is a technique that can catch you fish when little else will work. Most important it puts your baits and lures in the strike zone for the longest possible time. Topics covered in the video include why, how, where, and when to Bobber Dog for steelhead. Also included are detailed segments on gear and baits and lures.

The two players in our bobber dogging adventure are professional guides and anglers Josiah Darr and Mike Kelly. They don t claim to be the inventors of the technique, and in fact give much of the credit for their success to their mentors. What they have done is fished this angling system hard and on some very productive rivers; all the while adjusting their tactics and their gear, the results can be judged by the smiles on their clients faces you can see on their respective social media sites. Josiah and Mike both grew up fishing and their angling addictions led to their current guide businesses. Mike Kelly fishes the Central and Southern Oregon coastal rivers, and also hits the Umpqua, as well as offering trips on the Wild & Scenic portion of the Rogue River. Josiah guides out of Tilamook, Oregon and fishes many or the areas productive steelhead and salmon streams. Josiah, likes to stay busy, and also works for Clackacraft Drift Boats, and writes for Salmon, Trout, Steelheader Magazine.