Information about Surface flies
Salmon can be enticed to rise and hit surface flies, you will often be treated to a spectacular display of acrobatic jumping.
Bulkley Mouse
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Flybox Code:2714
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The Bulkley Mouse is an outstanding searching pattern any time the water is between 50 and 60 degrees.
Originating in British Columbia on the world famous Bulkley River, the "mouse" has migrated a little south.
Green Steelhead Bomber
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Flybox Code:2706
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Waking flies such as this one are intended to ride on the surface and create enough fuss so that a summer steelhead will be goaded into a strike.
Can be used in tandem with a traditional wet fly, steelhead may be attracted first by the waking fly, but are more likely to strike the wet fly, which is more invasive of their turf.
White wings provide easy visibility for the fish and angler.
Purple Spey Fly
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Flybox Code:1352
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Steelhead Black Dry Fly
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Flybox Code:1147
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Although the summer runs of steelhead are not what they once were, there are still a few streams in British Columbia where a summer run steelie will rise to a floating fly. I have found that on bright days, a large dark fly will often be the best way to entice a steelhead to rise from its bottom holding point to wildly slash at your fly floating overhead! In fact, an all black deer hair fly will sometimes do the trick when all else fails. I can recall an early September day just east of Telkwa on the Bulkley River when dozens of casts with a variety of both wet and dry flies had failed to get any response from a good stretch of steelhead holding water. I finally switched to an all black deer hair fly, well coated with floatant to ride high on the rippled current. The first long cast had just reached a spot behind a large underwater rock when a flash of silver exploded the surface in a savage strike at the deer hair fly.
Tan Steelhead Bomber
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Flybox Code:2705
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Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
Waking flies such as this one are intended to ride on the surface and create enough fuss so that a summer steelhead will be goaded into a strike.
Can be used in tandem with a traditional wet fly, steelhead may be attracted first by the waking fly, but are more likely to strike the wet fly, which is more invasive of their turf.
White wings provide easy visibility for the fish and angler.