For Those Fly Fishermen

[coho crazy]

Any favorite flys? please post some patterns for me or some pics

-Thanks, cam

[seamslayer]

Salmon, steelhead, or trout?

[coho crazy]

doesnt matter to me. i meant more so for steelies, but whatever you want

[seamslayer]

Summer steelhead:
Polar shrimp
Skykomish sunrise
Skunk/ Green butt skunk
Silver hilton
Purple perril
Spruce
Burlap
Bomber's
Waker's
Spey flies dressed sparse

Winter steelhead flies tend to bring out the insanity that lives in fly tiers:
String leaches
Lab rat
Marabou streamers
Tube flies
Traditional wets (like the above)
Any combination of rabbit, peackock, marabou, hackle, and color

Winter flies tend to be durable, large, with limitless design possibilities. Its quite fun to make up a new pattern before a trip that no one else has tried. Summer flies tend to be sparse, following traditional (and sometimes trouty) specs. Either way they are both great fun. Although I will say I prefer swining big flies in a rainstorm better.

[coho crazy]

the majority of the flies that i use are wakers or bombers. thats my summer go to flies. others for winter are moal leeches. those are fairly hard to tie, but worth it in the end. i also use popsicles and one popsicle that i tied up thats all white and has some chartreuse krystal flash and some red hackle on the front. it looks so cool. what type of fly rod do you own? and reel?

[coho crazy]

do you tie jigs and such for like a small buisness? i saw your jig tier thing on the bottom. im interested in it. if you could, i would like to know about that

[Chinook SSSF]

I still see the classic steelhead patterns work all the time. Here is an example I caught on video about this time last year. This one fell for a Green Butt Skunk tied sparse.

[seamslayer]

Yeah that was a cool video Matt. I try to set aside a few days a season to go compleatly traditional.

the majority of the flies that i use are wakers or bombers. thats my summer go to flies. others for winter are moal leeches. those are fairly hard to tie, but worth it in the end. i also use popsicles and one popsicle that i tied up thats all white and has some chartreuse krystal flash and some red hackle on the front. it looks so cool. what type of fly rod do you own? and reel?

Bombers and Wakers are great choices, and often yeild the most memorable fish: big native steelhead rising to dry flies, If that doesn't get you going I don't know what will. I find these work best in low light, low preasure conditions, and I usually change once the sun touches down or other anglers show up. Right now I amm running using a sage 6 weight and reel, and will be building a new 8 weight rainshadow switch rod.

do you tie jigs and such for like a small buisness? i saw your jig tier thing on the bottom. im interested in it. if you could, i would like to know about that

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[Arctic]

Seamslayer lives on some prime real estate, where big fat Steelhead, rise to take bugs. The OP is one of my favorite Steelhead regions. They are big, aggressive, and traditional fly flinger set-ups can be wildly productive. And I agree with him. Penninsula rainstorms, and heavy lead head bugs, cuttin wind and sinkin like rocks on my Skag. set... Nothing beats it.

[Chinook SSSF]

Seamslayer lives on some prime real estate, where big fat Steelhead, rise to take bugs. The OP is one of my favorite Steelhead regions. They are big, aggressive, and traditional fly flinger set-ups can be wildly productive. And I agree with him. Penninsula rainstorms, and heavy lead head bugs, cuttin wind and sinkin like rocks on my Skag. set... Nothing beats it.

IM not touchin that one.....