brandon4455
Good call on the contrasting colors. I like doing this for nymphs and dubbed buggers. Another neat trick- albeit an involved one - is to spin your dubbing into two loops side by side, then spin both dubbing ropes together with a piece of fine wire. You can also accomplish something similar visually by layering the dubbing, light & dark in your dubbing loop, before spinning it together with the wire. You wind up with a cool dubbing braid that is varigated and super strong.
for steelhead flies and a lot of other flies... some of Pop-A-Top Yarn has a lot of natural colors and it is kinda wool like an pulls apart and dubs great!
I also like mixing hares dubing with ice dubbing to either contrast or match to give the body some sparkle.
I never thougth about using 2 or 3 colors of floss twisted for a steelhead body.. hmmmm