A selection of Lindy Little Joe's Little Nipper jigs

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Rigging up, it looks pretty simple. A float, split shot, barrel swivel, leader and a tiny 1/64 ounce white-headed green jig like you'd use for panfish. Lyon says they're Lindy Little Nipper Jigs. They don't look like they'd hold a steelhead. They look like little crappie jigs. Lyon says wait and see.

"Lindy Little Joe's making them a little heftier since we started catching steelhead with them." Watching me sideways he adds, "they'll hold the bigger fish like these steelhead you came to see eat my maggots."

"Waxworms," I say.

"Put three on the hook," Jim says. "Hook them though the head." He's tried using only one or two but they just don't work as well.

I put three on, hooked through their heads. Two chickadees watch from a nearby branch.