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    Default How many different colors of Steelhead fly bodies are there?

    One day I counted all the different body colors of Steelhead flies in one of the big books with many Steelhead patterns.


    There were more black flies than anything else.

    Some purple.

    There were lots of red and orange.

    Some in silver and gold tinsel too.

    Some yellow.

    Some natural colors too like tan, gray and green/olive.

    Many of nice peacock herl.
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    Default Brindled Chenille....

    How about green/black, olive/black, orange/black, yellow/black as in Brindle Bug and other colored brindled chenille bodies?? Tapered orange & red floss as in McReynolds and Red Ant patterns.
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    Yes Darian

    Chenille was King for Steelhead bodies back in the good old days.

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    Years ago (1970s) we ordered chenille in skeins or for a little bit extra $ we ordered them on rolls.

    I sold full rolls of black in all sizes and I think in Brindle Bug too.

    Danville chenille came in 12 sizes: 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 & 12.

    We labeled them XF - 00, Fine - 0, Small - 1, Medium - 2, Large - 3 and Xlarge - 4.

    We had "the wall of chenille" in many colors back then when chenille was King.

    We put 3 yards in a package which was a good deal.

    All of our packaged materials where ~two time more than the old material houses like 'Hook & Hackle' or 'Hash's Herl & Hackle'.


    We use to package our own materials in the 1970s when everything was hard to get.

    We bought entire hides of elk, moose, deer, bear, muskrat, rabbit in died colors, badgar...........etc.

    We cut them up and packaged them in ziplock bags with hand written labels.


    We took a 4' x 8' sheet of 5/8" plywood and put 4" x 4" legs on it for a receiving, packaging, eating, and BSing table in the back room.

    Alan Barnard and I painted it and put routered oak molding around the edges to dress it up some for fly tying classes.

    While Alan worked for us he was constantly improving our "look" like our pen and ink mayfly logo on this Forum.


    Alan is one of the most gifted people I know........

    In his life time he was into motocross racing, music, photography, art, fly tying, computers, web development, ect.
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