kodiac, got any recommendations for a pattern for spawning steelhead?
For topwater pink pollywogs are great for salmon. Pinks and chums will usually respond to subsurface flies, i would recommend montana bills, egg sucking leeches, bunny flies and battle creeks. I would also look at some fly books like flies of alaska which has salmon flies that work everywhere.
Well a pink revolution works great for steelhead and so do any sort of egg or flesh pattern but i don't generally fish them when they are spawning because they are too easy to catch, don't fight very hard and are easily harmed because of all the weight they lose spawning.