THE WALTS WORM | Deadly Euro Fly Pattern for Trout and Steelhead in Michigan

This is a lethal fly that has accounted for hundreds and hundreds of trout and steelhead. It's effectiveness lies in it's simplicity. Materials: nomadanglers.c...
With only dubbing and wire, you can't ask for a simpler fly variant. Lots of different dubbing types, wire, and hooks will work fine for this bug. Thanks for watching!

[@TB-zh9pe]

The original Walt's Worm was created by Walt Young of Pennsylvania, and he tied it with light, natural, hare's ear dubbing (Hareline hare's ear #4 is a good match). Walt tied it on a straight shank 2X long hook with no bead, and no ribbing. The original is even simpler to tie than the fly in this video.

[@oldsmugglerflyfishing]

Wow, that's so cool. Love the history of fly fishing and fly tying.

[@oldsmugglerflyfishing]

That nymph looks amazing.

[@kingsncrome]

Do you use this fly in oct-nov steelhead season?

[@chappychap7447]

I couldn’t imagine using a size 12 hook on a Steelhead lol. Seems so crazy to me

[@FlyFishtheMitt]

I don't go out of my way to fish 12's for steelhead but we've caught, and landed, quite a few while euro nymphing on sz 12. I agree though, if I'm targeting steelhead the smallest I'll go is a sz 10.

[@erichgross7644]

@chappy - we rarely target steelhead with euro rods, but often times hook them unintentionally while targeting trout. If we are targeting steelhead on tightline, we never run anything smaller than a sz 10 hook and no lighter than 6lb fluoro.

[@waynegraff3942]

7 minutes and 12 seconds before you put a hook in the jaws. Less talky, more tying.