Wet FlyadvancedPacific Northwest
Aqua Veil
$9.95
Available Sizes#2 - #6
Color Variations
Blue/TealPurple/BlackGreen/Black
Jerry French designed the Aqua Veil to move through the water with the unhurried grace of something that knows it is being watched. Long hackle fibers trail behind the hook like a veil in slow current, and the profile is more suggestion than statement. Where other steelhead flies shout, the Aqua Veil whispers, and it turns out that whispering catches steelhead too -- particularly summer-run fish in clear water that have seen every loud pattern in the catalog. It is the fly for the angler who has graduated from brute force to finesse, which in steelhead fishing is a journey that takes years.
Quick Facts
TypeWet Fly
Difficultyadvanced
SeasonsSummer, Fall
Target SpeciesSteelhead
Sizes#2 - #6
Best LocationsNorth Umpqua River, OR; Deschutes River, OR
Where to Fish It
North Umpqua River
OR · Freestone River
Deschutes River
OR · Freestone River
Map unavailable. Locations for Aqua Veil: North Umpqua River, OR; Deschutes River, OR
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