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Still many month until the salmon season starts, and a couple of more months before my first steelhead trip. But it's better to get started tying early, so here is my first flies that will take place in my steelhead flybox.
The first flies had to be spey and dee type flies. Maybe that egg sucking leach is more effective, but if I'm gonna catch steelhead, I'm gonna do it with a nice looking fly. When looking on fly patterns from PNW flytiers purple is a color that oftens is used in the flies. Based on that I guess purple is a color which the steelhead favorize. So the first two flies had to be with purple as the main color. The first one is an experimental Dee fly with argus wings, the next is a spey type pattern. Both of them with purple marabou as hackle. The third fly is a chartreuse spey pattern. I know for salmon that this color is good in bright weather, and I guess that the steelhead also know this as well as the salmon
The first flies had to be spey and dee type flies. Maybe that egg sucking leach is more effective, but if I'm gonna catch steelhead, I'm gonna do it with a nice looking fly. When looking on fly patterns from PNW flytiers purple is a color that oftens is used in the flies. Based on that I guess purple is a color which the steelhead favorize. So the first two flies had to be with purple as the main color. The first one is an experimental Dee fly with argus wings, the next is a spey type pattern. Both of them with purple marabou as hackle. The third fly is a chartreuse spey pattern. I know for salmon that this color is good in bright weather, and I guess that the steelhead also know this as well as the salmon
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