Name Steelhead Spectre Category Steelhead Tag Flat Silver Tinsel Tail Golden Pheasant Tippet Barbs, Over which is Sheath of Black-Barred Woodduck, Followed by a Turn of Orange-Dyed Teal Flank Body Flat Silver Tinsel Center Joint Collar of Fluorescent Orange Hackle and Wing of White Skunk Collar Long Purple Hackle Wing White Skunk Head Fluorescent Red-Orange

The pattern for this fly came from the fine book by Dick Stewart and Farrow Allen, Flies for Steelhead. They write that this colorful, highly visble fly, originated by Bob Veverka of Vermont, was designed for fishing off-colored winter water.