The Brown Sugar
5x7, soft pastel
Day 2 is an original fly by Monte Smith, Northwest Fly Tyer. The Brown Sugar is a classic style hair wing with a silhouette found on many traditional steelhead flies. The wing is actually made of raccoon fur. While the Atlantic salmon flies are pretty vibrant and colorful (as you may have noticed in yesterday's post), the steelhead fish out West are attracted to more subdued colors (maybe our native bugs out West are a bit more drab). In any event, I do love the touches of orange!
