I'd second that, either a bonefish fly or one for redfish.....It is a common configuration for either species, usually unnamed or just called a shrimp.....
The truth about steelhead flies is that the pattern doesn't really matter 99% of the time. Yes, I know that is heresay, but they aren't actively feeding for food (their stomachs are atrophied) and no one knows why they take a fly, or for that matter any lure, spinner, or bait into their mouths. Presentation and size of fly matched to conditions are far more important. Otherwise, folks would never take them on a simple piece of yarn lashed to a short-shank hook with a mono yarn loop, and there have been thousands of them hooked with such a blasphemous thing.
All of which means that anytime someone in a fly shop tells you that this fly or that fly is the bomb for steelhead, they are selling you flies, not giving you the skinny on what fly to use. Just use whatever subsurface fly that strikes your fancy, fish it with a sink tip, presented where steelhead like to lie, and if there is one around that is willing to bite, you'll have a pull, if not a fish on.
And that fly is a saltwater shrimp fly of some sort that is used for bonefish and permit.
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