Indicator Setup for Steelhead

This is our recommended indicator setup for your steelhead fishing. 

Checklist:

• Beads, bead stoppers and bead hooks
• Fly rod 10’ 7wt and sealed drag reel to match rod
• Glo bug eggs, sucker spawns
• Leader: 9’ 0x or 1x fluorocarbon leader
• Nymphs (Black stoneflies, Psycho prince, Prince Nymph, Caddis Nymph, etc.)
• Split shots or putty
• Strike indicators
• Swivels and/or tippet rings
• Tippet: 1x and 2x fluorocarbon spools (3x with low flows)
• Wooly buggers, zonkers

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Knots to know:

Improved Clinch Knot | Fishing Knots | Animated Knots by Grog