Month: November 2022

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More Steelhead Fly Patterns

Ward Cummings an old steelhead fly pattern.
Orange Fox Tail steelhead wet fly.
Green Butt Black Bear steelhead/salmon fly pattern.
An old Klamath River steelhead pattern.
A small Herniator pattern tied on a scud/egg hook
A dark Casual Dress with a black bead head. A Polly Rosborough nymph creation. Should work on steelhead.

A selection of old steelhead and Atlantic fly patterns. Should be fun to fly fish all of these on the swing. Sink tip fly line on the Rogue.

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Steelhead Fly Patterns

It is fun to go back, rediscover and tie old steelhead flies. I have started with the beginning of the Alphabet and will proceed onwards through Z. If I can find a steelhead fly pattern which name begins with Z?

Dark Caddis ( Autumn Caddis )
Another Fall caddis pattern.
Carey Special ( A Fall caddis offering )
Cat Crap steelhead fly
Coal Car ( down eye hook size 4 )
The Del Copper was a popular fly for the North Santiam river in Oregon in the late 1980’s.
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Coho Fly Patterns

I’ve been tying coho salmon fly patterns. Never caught a coho in the Rogue River with a pattern other than a Midnight Fire Carpetbagger which is not a particularly thin fly. I’ve surmised that most successful coho flies are pretty thin with sparse application of material. Color are green, blue and maybe a little red. Silver tinsel and even silver hooks are good choices when tying coho fly patterns.

A sparse green, blue and silver coho fly. A favorite proven pattern in the Northwest.
Didn’t have the right blue color, so I used some Kingfisher blue hackle.
A pair of coho flies. One featuring marabou wing and the bottom fly with bucktail.
Four coho patterns, a Red Flash Fly, Neil’s Mistake, Kelsey’s Hope and a Fox Fur Bugger.

The Coronation Fly I found in an old fly tying book published in 1962. Tie Your Own Flies was authored by Roy Patrick. From the very basics of fly tying this small book contains a great amount of fly tying instruction and information. The foreword is by Claude M. Kreider who I remember as a fly fishing author from his books I read in years past. Tie Your Own Flies was a surprising find, and I will be studying the many old tips I find within.