Flies for Steelhead.

A large weighted stonefly attractor with a two-color chenille abdomen and swept hackle.

Rabbit fur breathes during pauses and makes a simple, mobile leech profile.

A bright bucktail tail, silver body, and soft collar make a compact swinging fly.

A dense wire abdomen, bead, and reflective wingcase make a useful sinking searching nymph.

An orange bead leads a soft leech profile that moves during pauses.

A compact egg-yarn body with a short rear flash tail, tied here with a bead for weight.

A small yarn sphere imitates a drifting fish egg.

A white hair wing contrasts with a black body and bright chartreuse rear band.

A large cream hex nymph with marabou tail, aftershaft gills, turkey back, soft legs and black mono eyes.

A stonefly nymph built with a wrapped latex abdomen, paired biot tails and a dubbed thorax.

A bright yarn nucleus covered by a sparse translucent veil; all colors share one tying method.

A thin orange body and sparse soft hackle suggest emerging or drowned insects.

A chenille stonefly with mobile rubber appendages for deeper drifts.

A marabou-tailed, dubbed nymph with bead-chain eyes and a soft marabou shellback.

An orange chenille body and white calf-tail wing on a strong steelhead hook.

Peacock herl, a gold rib, and unmistakable white biot wings. A classic searching nymph.

An uncomplicated chenille worm for a slow drift near the bottom.

A soft silicone worm with movement during a natural drift.

A robust brown Kaufmann-style stone with a weighted dubbed body, biot tails and three notched turkey wing pads.

Jim Pettis’s translucent egg pattern wraps a colored glass bead in a thin veil of egg yarn.

A marabou tail and soft, palmered hackle suggest leeches, baitfish, and larger aquatic food.