What's your go to steelhead flies?

[flyXing]

Just curious what your steelhead go to flies are?

I only started last year and been mostly experimenting w/ egg patters in a nymph style. Not much luck w/ swinging.

What are your favorite patterns for the GTA? trips?

 

[BASSMASTER19]

some handicapped pipe cleaner contraption made from grabbing a hook with pliers and wrapping it with weird materials

 

[flyXing]

some handicapped pipe cleaner contraption made from grabbing a hook with pliers and wrapping it with weird materials

ok, will head out right now to get some pipe cleaners, hooks, pliers, and materials lol

 

[BASSMASTER19]

ok, will head out right now to get some pipe cleaners, hooks, pliers, and materials lol

lol they werent small hooks either they were like thumbnail size

 

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hares ear, and stone flies

 

[flyXing]

what about streamers?

 

[rocheleauc]

Wooly Buggers, either black, brown, or olive. Different sizes depending on water conditions.

 

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hehe wooly buggers, some people love em like yourself, some people hate em (chase) me personally, only ever caught one fish on a bugger, not from lack of trying though

 

[coldfeet]

prince nymphs pink or black zuddlers and whatchamacallits

 

[DaveC]

Egg sucking leech, marabou streamers, intruders, hobo speys

 

[Madriverfisher]

I agree with Dave c for swinging then nymphs or egg patterns in my single hand or wooly buggers some muddler minnows

 

[staffman]

Brown or black stone flies ,prince nymphs, egg sucking leeches.

 

[flyXing]

thanks everyone
i'll have to give these a shot for sure!

just curious, what are you guys using for setups?

sinking lines?
floating w/ a sinking leader?
how often do you add split shot to get the streamer down?

are you aiming to get fly down as deep as nymphing?

if you haven't guessed... not much of a swinger myself

 

[swiftcurrent]

All those flies can be excellent producers.

My favorite thing to do, is swing big ugly flies to aggresive Steelhead. Here are two 3/0 spey type flies that have worked for me.



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[Madriverfisher]

It depends on witch set up I using withy Spey set up I run ether a Lon belly Spey line or a skagit set up to a sinking leader to tippet a fly or if I'm using a single hand approach it would be a fly line to a leader with a indicator to tippet to ether a egg pattern or nymph of if I'm swinging swinging it would be fly line to leader to tippet to fly

 

[flyXing]

swift: those are awesome looking! can you point me in direction where to find instructions for tying?

 

[Madriverfisher]

Man those are sick looking flies I love the look of Spey flies i really need to work on them

 

[Dozer]

Micro buggers are great.

 

[AKnook]

Large leggy stone flies, egg sucking leeches, glo bugs.

 

[ChaseChrome]

Swift ... Yeah the speys looking good...
On another matter however....
Uhmmmmmm...never mind

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