Red n Black Steelie Fly

About the Red n Black Steelie Pacific & Steelhead Fly

The Red n Black Steelie is a proven, high-impact winter steelhead fly built on a weighted bottle tube to get down quickly and stay in the zone. With its red hot-spot tag and tail, dark mobile wing and subtle flash, it’s a classic steelhead tube fly profile designed to trigger confident takes when fish are holding deep in colder flows.

Fishing Tips:

How it works

• Depth on demand: the brass bottle tube adds weight so the fly drops to the required depth without needing an over heavy leader.
• Mobile wing = more life: a quick “twitch” makes the arctic fox/fox wing pulse and flare, creating an animated baitfish/leech impression.
• Red/black contrast: the red tag and tail act as a strike trigger, while the black front half gives a strong silhouette in winter light.
• Flash & JC cheeks: a touch of flashabou and jungle cock cheeks provide a focal point without turning it into a gaudy attractor.

How to fish it

• Fish it as a winter steelhead tube fly on a sink tip (or a heavier tip if the river is high/cold) and give it time to reach depth before it comes under tension.
• Work a steady swing, then add occasional short twitches to make the wing “breathe”; that movement is a key part of why this pattern produces.
• Don’t rush the hang-down: let it sit briefly at the end of the swing and be ready; takes often come as the fly slows and stalls.

Country of origin for this pacific & steelhead fly: Norway

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

Pattern Dressings

• Tube : Brass bottle tubes 12 mm and 22 mm.
• Tying Silk : Black.
• Tag : Red Glo brite multi floss.
• Tail : Red Glo brite multi yarn.
• Body : Rear half glo brite floss with pearl mylar tinsel over.
• Body : Front half black ice dub.
• Hackle : Red, palmered over, (front half of body only).
• Rib : Oval silver tinsel, (over front half of body).
• Collar : Black hackle.
• Wing : Red artic fox, strands of flashabou with black fox tail over top.
• Cheeks : Jungle cock.