Willowhead- understood, it is just we live on a by-pass..... the highway missed us. :lol: The very idea of thying a fly without a wing here means your tying a nymph, pure and simple, we don't like to over-complicate things over here. My main reason for asking was so that I did not tread on any toes ...

OK, so does this one count?

It may be a little big to qualify as an insect imitation, on a #2 hook and all..... but this thread is aimed at Steelhead right?

Thanks Karsten.
Have a few Oz connections through other sites, one a bamboo rod maker from Sydney will be here early next month to fish, another from Tassie makes some wonderful flies with Wallaby fur. Good guys to have met.

:? So enlighten me..... are Steelhead flymphs not meant to have floss bodies? Are floss bodies reserved for hairwing Steelhead flies and Atlantic patterns? Had I have known of such mysteries I would have dubbed a body on the fly above..... it does have one wrap of orange wool and one of bronze peaco...

A more frontal view may give a better idea of the feather, but the green does not show as well as I had hoped.

Never tied Steelhead flies before, we don't have them. We have Rainbow Trout but they do not run to the sea. However a while ago I was given a few black hooks that said Salmon & Steelhead on the box, so what the heck! Green & Orange. Size 4 Black Magic N series hook. The hackle feather is no...

That looks like it would ring the dinner gong for most any self respecting trout.
Great pattern.

Really like the wide gape on those hooks, never seen them here..... might be worth importing a few.

Nice design and colour choice.

Nice clean thorax tie fly, I like your style!

Shows the beauty of a fly that a thinker has tied, versus a mass produced sweat shop fly.

Very very nice tie, fantastic attention to detail makes a "simple" two material fly look a million dollars.