Olympic Peninsula, OP Steelhead Flies 
Winter Steelhead fishing and flies for the Olympic Peninsula rivers for Steelhead.
West Side Rivers (North to South): Sol Duc, Calawah, Bogachiel, Hoh, Clearwater, Queets, Upper Quinault, Lower Quinault, Humptulips, Wynoochee Rivers.
Notes on fly colors and sizes that have worked for Grabflies over the years. For off color water conditions - rivers like (Not during lower water conditions) Bogachiel, Hoh, Queets, and after large rains. I like to use Black/Pink, Black/Purple/Pink, Purple/Pink...and larger size flies 3-4 inches. In clearer water, go smaller 2.5 - 3 inches.
For Clearer water conditions and also late winter. I like to use Black/Blue, Black/Blue/Chartreuse, Blue... Size 2.5 - 3, Sometimes larger in more turbid water conditions. See Aqua Flies, Tube Flies (Click Here) See All Aqua Flies (Click Here) Other Winter Steelhead Flies (Click Here)
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PNW Munker Fly
The first fly I was commissioned to tie was for a guide on the Great Lakes. He wanted a rabbit wing with a muddler head on a tube! I was
nervous and new, and he was patient and kind. I immediately went to the internet looking for this type of fly I could simply copy, but didn’t find much. I eventually pieced together a couple ideas, and through my friends critiques, we ‘re-designed’ a pattern. The idea comes from Kim Sorenson’s Munker pattern. A killer Danish Atlantic Salmon and Seatrout fly. The muddler head style is a Davie Mcphail design, and I’ve yet to find a better way to tie a muddler head on a tube! This particular fly accounted for my first ever fish on my own tied fly, and my friends personal best steelhead on his home river! I couldn’t recommend the pattern enough, and I know you’ll be more than satisfied with the results!
• 3 inches long
• Premium rabbit hide, hand cut
• 6mm brass bead for wing support
• Angel hair and flashiboo
• Lady amherst pheasant
• Ahrex #2 homerun tube hook
Size: 3 inches, easy to cast for a rabbit wing this long, Lots of Movement! Custom tied by Alex Belonga, Straits on the Fly
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BUNDY’S BUNNY SWIMMER Comes with hook: Ahrex Homerun tube hook size 2 • Hand cut strips from premium rabbit hides, and triangle tapered for maximum movement • 6mm hight quality brass bead on tube • Nutria for an underwing support • Spey marabou from fish hunter, the best! • Cone FOR MAXIMUM MOVEMENT AND CASTABILITY • Ahrex homerun tube hook size 2 Just an easy casting pattern that offers tons of movement in the water. not all rabbit is created equal, and you’ll see the movement in these when they are in the water. the nutria hair against the bead provides an awesome profile while minimizing any bulk. i blend the angel hair with it to get a nice hotspot and also good movement. Give one a try, I think you’ll love it! Size: 3 inches, easy to cast for a rabbit wing this long, Lots of Movement! Custom tied by Alex Belonga, Straits on the Fly
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A Black, Purple, Pink, Moal Supreme Leech is as good as it gets. Tied with hook holder to help prevent hook fouling, and natural Micro Barred Voodoo Fibers for legs.
Moal leeches are tied entirely on a string with a trailer hook at the back. This gives the fly greater action than a fly tied on a rigid hook. More fish are landed with the Moal fly as well. Custom Moal Leeches are tied by Grabflies.com in the good old USA. Moal's are tied using the best materials on the market and are tied to last (super glue, Braid Line 20 LB (double over for 40 LB strength) and, quality Owner size 1 hook. Size: 3 inches
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A custom design by Grabflies. Design idea came from combining the famous Skagit Minnow with the new Intruder style trailing hook. This fly has lots of action in the water with a large profile. Great fly for winter Steelhead, BC Steelhead, King Salmon, Chum Salmon - option to select Owner #1 hook This Neo Skagit Leech is a smaller version of the original Skagit Leech. It is tied with a hidden .25" nickle bead. The hidden bead helps prop up the Marabou which has stiff Guinea and Prop Hackle in front of it. The fly swims different, and snags less as the bead will not snag on rocks. Size: 2.5 - 3.25 inches Hook size: # 2 Owner | #1 OPST. (Select below) Fly is tied and glued in every step of it's construction - tied to last.
Also see other Neo Skagit Leeches (click here) 
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A custom design by Grabflies. Design idea came from combining the famous Skagit Minnow with the new Intruder style trailing hook. This fly has lots of action in the water with a large profile. POP = Purple, Orange, Pink This Neo Skagit Leech is a smaller version of the original Skagit Leech. It is tied with a hidden .25" nickle bead. The hidden bead helps prop up the Marabou which has stiff Guinea and Prop Hackle in front of it. The fly swims different, and snags less as the bead will not snag on rocks. This color version has pink Rhea adding to the color scheme and mowing fibers. Size: 3 inches | Size 2 Owner hook | #1 OPST hook Fly is tied and glued in every step of it's construction - tied to last.
Also see other Neo Skagit Leeches (click here)
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A custom design by Grabflies. Design idea came from combining the famous Skagit Minnow with the new Intruder style trailing hook. This fly has lots of action in the water with a large profile. This Neo Methow Skagit Leech is a smaller version of the original Methow Skagit Leech, which has more black in it. It is tied with a hidden nickle bead - smaller sizes lighter cone. The hidden bead helps prop up the Marabou. The fly swims different, and snags less as the bead will not snag on rocks. Regular size has a hidden .25 inch bead, and is three inches long. Fly is tied and glued in every step of it's construction - tied to last. Size: 2.5 - 3 inches Hook Sizes: # 2 & 1 Owner SSW hook | OPST # 1 Barbless Neo Skagit Ostrich Leech, Methow (Click Here) Neo Skagit Leech, Methow CW (Clear Water (Click Here)
Also see other Neo Skagit Leeches (click here)
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A custom design by Grabflies. Design idea came from combining the famous Skagit Minnow with the new Intruder style trailing hook. This fly has lots of action in the water with a large profile. This Methow Skagit Leech is a Clear Water version of the original Methow Skagit Leech, which has more black in it. It is tied with a hidden nickle cone, lighter than a bead. The hidden bead helps prop up the Marabou. The fly swims different, and snags less as the bead will not snag on rocks. New for 2019, Tied with UV2 dyed Marabou, color: King Fisher Blue Fly is tied and glued in every step of it's construction - tied to last.
Size: 2.5 - 3 inches | Size 2 Owner SSW hook | Size 1 SSW Owner |Size 1, OPST barbless hook
Also see Neo Skagit Leech, Methow (click here)
Neo Skagit Leech, CW - under water view
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A custom design by Grabflies. Design idea came from combining the famous Skagit Minnow with the new Intruder style trailing hook. This fly has lots of action in the water with a large profile. This Neo Skagit Leech is a smaller version of the original Skagit Leech. It is tied with a hidden .25" nickle bead. The hidden bead helps prop up the Marabou which has stiff Guinea and Prop Hackle in front of it. The fly swims different, and snags less as the bead will not snag on rocks. This color pattern is very good for early winter Steelhead, Kalum River Winter Steelhead, and coastal Steelhead, and any where that pink does well. Size: 3 inches| Size 2 Owner hook (Now available with #1 OPST hook) Fly is tied and glued in every step of it's construction - tied to last.
Also see other Neo Skagit Leeches (click here)
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A custom design by Grabflies. Design idea came from combining the famous Skagit Minnow with the new Intruder style trailing hook. This fly has lots of action in the water with a large profile. Taking the most successful Steelhead fly and making it even better! This Neo Skagit Ostrich Leech is like the Neo Skagit Leech, Methow but it is tied with propped up (hidden nickle bead + Intruder Prop hackle) trailing Ostrich, then marabou tied ahead of it. This gives the fly more silhouette and action. The fly swims different, and snags less as the bead will not snag on rocks. Fly is tied and glued in every step of it's construction - tied to last. Size: 2.75 - 3.5 inches Also see: Neo Skagit Leech, Methow CW (Clear Water (Click Here) See other Neo Skagit Leeches (click here) 
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Offspring to the Pink Flash Moal , but with 1/3 of the body a second colored tail. Moal leeches are tied entirely on a string with a trailer hook at the back. This gives the fly greater action than a fly tied on a rigid hook. More fish are landed with the Moal fly as well. The combination of rabbit fur which has incredible life in the water and flashabou creates an illuminated attraction for fish. A real winner!
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Moal leech with lots of flashabou. Chinook, King Salmon unlike Steelhead often like mono, single color flies. If the aren't hitting one color switch to another, rather then swing a multicolored fly by them. These flies are custom tied. Sizes: 3 inch (clear water), 4 inch (glacier silt to muddy water) Hook Sizes: Size 2 (fishes better), Size 1 (stronger) Owner Hooks SSW Super Needle Point Hooks.
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A Moal Leech as good as it gets. Tied with hook holder to help prevent hook fouling, and natural Micro Barred Voodoo Fibers for legs.
Moal leeches are tied entirely on a string with a trailer hook at the back. This gives the fly greater action than a fly tied on a rigid hook. More fish are landed with the Moal fly as well. Custom Moal Leeches are tied by Grabflies.com in the good old USA. Moal's are tied using the best materials on the market and are tied to last (super glue, Braid line 20 LB (double over for 40 LB strength) and, quality Owner size 2 hook. Methow Moal Supreme CW (CW = Clear water) Size: 2.5 " 
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AKA: Two Toned Flash Moal Leech, Blue/Chartreuse Moal leeches are tied entirely on a string with a trailer hook at the back. This gives the fly greater action than a fly tied on a rigid hook. More fish are landed with the Moal fly as well. The combination of rabbit fur which has incredible life in the water and flashabou creates an illuminated attraction for fish. A real winner! Two Toned Flash Moal Leech - Flashabou and rabbit wrapped around a string go together. Moal Leeches have great movement in the water. They wiggle and undulate, which moves the flashabou in wave like motion reflecting colorful light waves as the fly swings across the river. Two Toned (color) Flash Moals have two different colors of flashabou tied in. The tail color is tied in after half the fly is wrapped with rabbit. The head flashabou is tied with a length of 2/3's the fly length. This works much better that two colors of flashabou tied in together at the cone.
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Evo Bunny, new for 2018, updated 2019. Tied on a Senyos Articulated Shank, 25mm, Black A non-weighted, easy to cast Steelhead fly with lots of action. Tied with a trailing egg. This fly has lots of movement with a free moving Rabbit wing. Size 2 Owner SSW hook tied with 20 lb mono doubled over. See all Evo Bunny Flies (click Here) See Evo Bunny Supreme (click Here)
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The Evo Bunny Supreme is weighted enough to get the rabbit down - swims great. The fly is tied with weighted wire (.025 - .030). This is used to create an enlarged body that helps keep the rabbit wing swimming higher and off the hook to help prevent fouling - see photo. I've been working a long time playing with methods to do this. Here it is! Size: 2 - 2.5 inches Materials: 
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The Evo Bunny Supreme 2 is weighted enough to get the rabbit down - swims great. The fly is tied with weighted wire (.025 - .030). This is used to create an enlarged body that helps keep the rabbit wing swimming higher and off the hook to help prevent fouling - see photo. I've been working a long time playing with methods to do this. Here it is! Size: 2 - 2.5 inches Materials: - 60 lb braid line (Supreme 2 uses braid line and tubing with flash tinsel glued over, this keep to hook align but still flexible. Hook can be turned in tubing.)
- Small Hool Holder Tubing
Also see Evo Bunny Supreme (click here)
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Moal leeches are tied entirely on a string with a trailer hook at the back. This gives the fly greater action than a fly tied on a rigid hook. More fish are landed with the Moal fly as well. The combination of rabbit fur which has incredible life in the water and flashabou creates an illuminated attraction for fish. A real winner! Also see: Pink Flash Moal Leech with Colored Tail
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A Moal Leech as good as it gets. Tied with hook holder to help prevent hook fouling, and natural Micro Barred Voodoo Fibers for legs.
Moal leeches are tied entirely on a string with a trailer hook at the back. This gives the fly greater action than a fly tied on a rigid hook. More fish are landed with the Moal fly as well. Custom Moal Leeches are tied by Grabflies.com in the good old USA. Moal's are tied using the best materials on the market and are tied to last (super glue, Braid Line 20 LB (double over for 40 LB strength) and, quality Owner size 2 hook.
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Moal leeches are tied entirely on a string with a trailer hook at the back. This gives the fly greater action than a fly tied on a rigid hook. More fish are landed with the Moal fly as well. Custom Moal Leeches are tied by Grabflies.com in the good old USA. Moal’s are tied using the best materials on the market and are tied to last (super glue, Berkley Fireline Braid 15 LB (double over for 30 LB strength) Kevlar Thread, quality hooks.
If you had to pick one fly to fish for Steelhead with it should be a Moal Leech. 
Steelhead caught using a Black and Blue Moal Leech by Jeff Layton
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BUNDY’S BUNNY SWIMMER • Hand cut strips from premium rabbit hides, and triangle tapered for maximum movement • 6mm hight quality brass bead on tube • Nutria for an underwing support • Spey marabou from fish hunter, the best! • Cone FOR MAXIMUM MOVEMENT AND CASTABILITY • Ahrex homerun tube hook size 2 Just an easy casting pattern that offers tons of movement in the water. not all rabbit is created equal, and you’ll see the movement in these when they are in the water. the nutria hair against the bead provides an awesome profile while minimizing any bulk. i blend the angel hair with it to get a nice hotspot and also good movement. Give one a try, I think you’ll love it! Size: 3 inches, easy to cast for a rabbit wing this long, Lots of Movement! Custom tied by Alex Belonga, Straits on the Fly
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SNOWRUNNER BRUSH TUBE o HIGH QUALITY SNOWRUNNER HAIR ON BRUSH o LOADED WITH ANGEL HAIR AND HOLOGRAPHIC FLASHABOU o FISH HUNTER SPEY MARABOU o PREIUM 6MM BEAD FOR SUPPORT o HIGH QUALITY CONES FROM EUROPE o opst swing hook size 1/0 for Kings o opst swing hook size 1 for Steelhead, Select hook below These patterns just breathe life! You have to put them in the water to see. Snowrunner hair comes from a fairly uncommon domesticated animal in Europe. The hair is as durable as it gets and it just pumps like hell in the water! It doesn't mat or tangle on the hook like synthetics and icelandic sheep, and is semi-translucent giving it a beautiful sheen. When I first tested the pattern on the Kitimat river in BC, I caught a chrome bright Chinook on my first cast! Yes, i was at the right place at the right time, and a little dumb luck too, but I fished this pattern for a week straight and beat the crap out of it! It is still in my box ready to go! Anyway, if a large pattern that holds profile in the heaviest of currents, yet moves beautifully in even the slower pools, is what you are after, I highly recommend you give these a shot! Size: 4 inches - Large fly that is easy to cast.  Alex Belonga, King Salmon caught using SNOWRUNNER BRUSH TUBE
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SNOWRUNNER BRUSH TUBE o HIGH QUALITY SNOWRUNNER HAIR ON BRUSH o LOADED WITH ANGEL HAIR AND HOLOGRAPHIC FLASHABOU o FISH HUNTER SPEY MARABOU o PREIUM 6MM BEAD FOR SUPPORT o HIGH QUALITY CONES FROM EUROPE o opst swing hook size 1/0 for Kings o opst swing hook size 1 for Steelhead, Select hook below These patterns just breathe life! You have to put them in the water to see. Snowrunner hair comes from a fairly uncommon domesticated animal in Europe. The hair is as durable as it gets and it just pumps like hell in the water! It doesn't mat or tangle on the hook like synthetics and icelandic sheep, and is semi-translucent giving it a beautiful sheen. When I first tested the pattern on the Kitimat river in BC, I caught a chrome bright Chinook on my first cast! Yes, i was at the right place at the right time, and a little dumb luck too, but I fished this pattern for a week straight and beat the crap out of it! It is still in my box ready to go! Anyway, if a large pattern that holds profile in the heaviest of currents, yet moves beautifully in even the slower pools, is what you are after, I highly recommend you give these a shot! Size: 4 inches - Large fly that is easy to cast. Alex Belonga, King Salmon caught using SNOWRUNNER BRUSH TUBE
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SNOWRUNNER BRUSH TUBE o HIGH QUALITY SNOWRUNNER HAIR ON BRUSH o LOADED WITH ANGEL HAIR AND HOLOGRAPHIC FLASHABOU o FISH HUNTER SPEY MARABOU o PREIUM 6MM BEAD FOR SUPPORT o HIGH QUALITY CONES FROM EUROPE o opst swing hook size 1/0 for Kings o opst swing hook size 1 for Steelhead, Select hook below These patterns just breathe life! You have to put them in the water to see. Snowrunner hair comes from a fairly uncommon domesticated animal in Europe. The hair is as durable as it gets and it just pumps like hell in the water! It doesn't mat or tangle on the hook like synthetics and icelandic sheep, and is semi-translucent giving it a beautiful sheen. When I first tested the pattern on the Kitimat river in BC, I caught a chrome bright Chinook on my first cast! Yes, i was at the right place at the right time, and a little dumb luck too, but I fished this pattern for a week straight and beat the crap out of it! It is still in my box ready to go! Anyway, if a large pattern that holds profile in the heaviest of currents, yet moves beautifully in even the slower pools, is what you are after, I highly recommend you give these a shot! Size: 4 inches - Large fly that is easy to cast. Alex Belonga, King Salmon caught using SNOWRUNNER BRUSH TUBE
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Plenty of rivers have multiple species of both anadromous and resident fish at the same time. This makes for some amazing fishing, but also presents the issue of what pattern is the best pattern to use that has the greatest chance of a grab across all species. RIO's Make It Rainbow is that fly. This fly is a virtual steelhead magnet, while also grabbing the attention of large brown trout and rainbow trout at the same time. Got bull trout in the stream? Try the white, which we promise they can’t resist.
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