This page features our best steelhead fly patterns. These links take you to a page with a YouTube fly tying videos demonstrating how to tie the fly, a high resolution image of the finished steelhead fly, and a fly pattern recipe. Click on the steelhead fly pattern link (not the photo!).

Tube Fly Patterns, Leeches, Intruders
Steelhead love big slimy, articulated, freaky, purplish, feathery weird creeps. Tie some, and hang on.
Hartwick’s Hoser

Sculpin Bunny Intruder

Freckled Marabou Tube

Kilowatt

Steak and Eggs

Senyo’s Slim Shady

Senyo’s Artificial Intelligence

Senyo’s Dr. Feelgood

Samurai

Sylvie’s Tandem Tube

Stickel’s Solar Flare

Tri-color steelhead tube

Barred-rabbit strip tube fly

Pro-tube Popsicle

Articulated Starlight Leech

Hot head summer tube fly

Hickman’s Flash Taco

Barrett’s Egg-sucking Tarantula

Pro Tube Spey Prawn

ProTube Popsicle

Pro Tube Bunny Leech

Copper Miner Tube Fly

Blue Hoochie: Inspired by Howell’s Prom Dress

Pro Tube Green Butt Skunk

Pro Tube Winter’s Hope

Marabou Tube Fly

Tony’s Shrimpinator Tube Fly

Tony’s Coppinator Tube Fly

Steelhead Zonker Leech

Purple Tube Leech

Tony’s Temple Tube

MOAL Leech

Egg-sucking leech

Steelhead Wooly Bugger

Jay’s Shorty dubbed head egg-sucking leech

Shank-style Intruder

Traditional style steelhead flies:
These are unweighted, typically summer steelhead fly patterns, used in Oregon’s great summer steelhead waters like the Willamette, Umpqua, Rogue and Deschutes Rivers.
Steelhead Muddler Minnow

Spey Iron: Flame Boss

Silver Hilton Spider

Garden Hackle

Blue Fox

Red Ant

Anadromous Royal Coachman

Green Butt Skunk

Steelhead October Caddis Wet

Micro Polar Peril

Super Polar Shrimp

Brad’s Brat (Winter)

Purple Slip Knot

Shedlock Spider

Foam Top Steelhead Skater

Mack’s Canyon

Purple Peril

Jay’s Steelhead Simplicity

Cummings Steelhead Pattern

Dec Hogan Summer Bug

Alec Jackson Spade Skunk

Purple Skunk

Sparse Muddler Minnow

Jay Nicholas’ Summer Steelhead fly

Jay Nicholas’ Summer Steelhead Chenille

Muddler Minnow

Signal Light

Purple Western Soft Hackle

Freight Train

Syd Glasso Quillayute

Ally’s Shrimp

The Editor

Steelhead Egg Patterns, Dead Drift Flies:
For when swinging just doesn’t work. Or when you’re just feeling dirty. Get out the Bobbinator and lay some winter steelhead waste with these beauties.
The Real Deal

Pearly Pink Egg Dart

Jay’s Best Steelhead Egg Ever

Low water wiggle egg

Frizzle Chenille Steelhead Prawn

UV Yarn Steelhead Egg Pattern

Steelhead Ugly Bug

Kaufmann’s Dredger

Winter Steelhead Cocktail Shrimp

The Glo-bug

The Lowly Glowly

Marabou Steelhead Jig

Parachute Egg Cluster

Hidden Bead Steelhead Jig

Hot legs steelhead Nymph

Bead-head Lifter

Fox’s Fertilizer

Jay’s Total Domination Steelhead Egg

I line in Michigan and we are hoping for some rain soon to get the steelhead running. I will try out some of these patterns and hope they work well for the Great Lakes Steelies!!!
‘m looking for some help tying some steelhead fly’s for the clearwater and salmon river’s of Idaho. I’d appreciate some help with pattern’s and tying techniques. Thank’s.
I would appreciate some suggestion’s with fly pattern’s for the clearwater and salmon river’s of Idaho.
Like to see Pick yer Pocket pattern instructions/video.
Good job on the intruder!
A tutorial/vedio of “Morrish’s Deep October Caddis” would be great!
Would like to see tutorial on “morrish’s medusa”!!! The popsicle version. Keep up the good work on you tube Jay!
My daughter wants to comment…
I like your beautiful flies, they are colorful.
bye!
Neva /Age 6
Any chance on a vid of how to tie a Pic Yer Pocket?
Many thanks
Thanks for updating the patterns-especially since it’s the beginning of winter steelhead.
Great collection of Steelhead Flies! “The Best” — Alaska to Idaho, Michigan to the Northwest!
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I was hoping to now what flies where good for the Clearwater river and the little salmon please let me know.
thank you
Please email any information on what is available in the Necanicum River at Seaside OR in the middle of July.
The short answer is not much. July is mostly for sea run cutthroat and good action depends on cool or foggy day to cool the water. Fall chinook show up in September and October, followed by winter steelhead. A few summer Chinook are in the Nehalem estuary but this is a complicated and challenging fly fishery. Dory based fly fishing charters are available in Pacific City via Pacific City Fly Fishing (google search to find John and Jack Harrell). A few charter boats out of Astoria might accept fly anglers for Albacore but these are mostly bait and lure fishing trips. JN