Kispiox Special Fly

About the Kispiox Special Pacific & Steelhead Fly

The Kispiox Special is a bold, high confidence winter steelhead fly designed to trigger aggressive takes when fish aren’t in a feeding mood. With its colourful, high-contrast profile, it’s ideal as a searching steelhead fly pattern when you need something that shows up fast and looks like it belongs in big, cold river water.

Once a steelhead enters the freshwater river systems, it no longer feeds which makes it pretty difficult to catch one. Although they don't bite out of a feeding instinct, they will hit a lure or a fly as an aggressive response to something that appears right in front of their face.

Fishing Tips:

How it works

• High-visibility trigger profile: The Kispiox Special is deliberately “exciting and colourful”, which helps it stand out in winter light and give steelhead a clear target.
• Aggression response, not feeding: Steelhead often hit from territorial/aggressive reaction once they’ve entered freshwater, and this pattern is built to provoke exactly that.
• Confidence “search” fly: It’s the sort of fly you tie on when you want to cover water efficiently and make fish show their hand.

How to fish it

• Fish it on rivers and streams with a setup that keeps it in the lane: a sink tip or heavier leader system if you need depth, then let it swim under tension on the swing.
• Start with a steady swing, then add the occasional gentle pulse (small twitches rather than big strips) to make the materials breathe.
• Work methodically: short steps down the run, and give each bucket a proper swing; this style of winter steelhead fly rewards coverage.

Tier of this pacific & steelhead fly: Mandy Shelvey

Country of origin for this pacific & steelhead fly: USA

This pacific & steelhead fly is designed to be fished on Rivers & Streams