Blog - Tie a Fly — Steelhead Jig

The Little Brown Jig was designed to Target Big Manistee River Steelhead.  It is meant to be a small generic bottom minnow, a sucker fry, small sculpin, goby, darter, etc.  The mixed brown colors, gold rib, floppy fur tail and black bead head with soft swept back grouse collar giving it broad shoulders all support that impression.  It has the colors of the river bottom just as do all the other bottom dwelling crustaceans or insect nymphs.  This is made with many of the same materials as my Hex nymphs. Except for it presumably representing a minnow, it could be...