How to Tie a Black and Blue Steelhead Fly - OPST

Learn from Olympic Peninsula Skagit Tactics guide Trevor Covich how to tie a relatively simple yet highly effective steelhead fly. If you tie and fish a lot and want a fly that looks great, catches a lot of fish and doesn't take you forever to tie, you would be well served to learn the techniques presented in this video. With a single post of Arctic fox and ostrich and flash spun in a dubbing loop, this fly has tremendous motion in the water but can be cranked out quickly enough to till up your box. Check out opskagit.com for some of the materials and tools used in this video.

[@donbartlett698]

Great video guys and most helpful. Thank you! The Jack Daniels bottle at 19:10 in the video lends a special touch...LoL.

[@michaelkborozan4121]

Really nice! Love that black and blue!

[@Mattyehdams]

blood diamond great movie

[@elkhunter3349]

Great video, nice fly, hope to see you tie more flies on youtube.

[@cincocaballero9890]

nice, can't wait to tie one for Alaska Spring Steel!!!!!

[@1jeppo1]

Great stuff Trevor. Really well explained. No wonder you land so many fish. You you using 2 hooks :-)
Keep em coming

[@fishduckdog]

Thanks for sharing!

[@OPSkagit]

You're welcome!

[@OceanyangTW]

nice vice cradle~

[@candrewthokie]

any tricks to keep the stinger hook riding correct? mine tend to fall to the side or ride crooked

[@wallo102]

Hello Trevor
Verry nice fly congratulation. What kind of wire you use?

[@wallo102]

hello trevor
sorry but i don't find your ice dubbing on the material list. where to find this?
Thank's for your help

[@JohnDriessenLikesBikes]

Mind if I add your video to my blog?

[@twalt20]

Great video! Do you have any recommendations for substitutes for the EP Anadromous Brush? Could you just use a mixture of dubbing and artic fox tail in a dubbing loop? Or will that be too stiff? Or would you use something like rabbit (without the hide)?

[@bpaull08]

Hi Travis,
Trevor tried to comment but couldn't for some reason. He said just to use rabbit. I'm glad you liked the video. We will definitely be posting more.
Thanks,
Ben Paull

[@brianfleury5935]

Nice fly. Go Patriot's!

[@elkhunter3349]

Brian Fleury Patriots😨 😎GO BANGEL'S 🙌

[@zarminahahmad1580]

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[@julianbyrd6035]

I tried going onto your website for material list but couldn't locate it. Specifically thread and hook.

[@dunsterman356]

Lord tunderin Jeezus that’s a nice bug

[@blitzen74]

What is the wire loop used for?

[@TheSilver9r]

For attaching the hook.

[@adrianlowe3167]

what suze thread did you use?

[@bpaull08]

+Adrian Lowe 210 denier Danvilles or 140 denier Vevus which is even better.

[@jonc3937]

Nice fly. Just curious why you didn't make a composite dubbing loop at the end instead of using the pre-made brush?

[@bpaull08]

+jON C This was kind of before we (Trevor and Ben) had really gotten good at the composite loop.

[@weswolf73]

Lol. Old thread new question? Can you sling this fly with single hand commando set up? Like 6wt 9’ ?

[@aaronpower998]

I would assume so as long as your not chucking a super heavy tip as well

[@johnawrey5582]

Is that a whistler fly fishing hat??