Haig-Brown Fly Collection ^*

Steelhead Bee

Photograph ©Art Lingren

"Haig-Brown's one original dry fly, the Steelhead Bee, came somewhat by accident, yet stands alone among the twenty Haig-Brown patterns in its importance to fly fishermen of the coast.
The Steelhead Bee at once suggests its use and, being a dry fly, its importance . . . [Haig-Brown] first put it to use in 1951 in search of the Main Islands Pool on the Campbell River for the wonderful harvest cutthroats that had disappeared from the Canyon Pool when a hydroelectric development altered its flows beyond recognition. What he caught there were not cutthroats but bright, fresh summer steelhead whose performances when hooked were awesome, to say the least," (page 29, "Haig-Brown's Steelhead Bee", 1988).

For more of Mr. Lingren's work, see Fly Patterns of British Columbia, published by Frank Amato Publications.

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