My first caught winter steelhead ever, was also on an Okie on the Cowlitz just downstream from Blue Creek about a mile. There were so many fish being caught in the winter of 1969. I saw people catching fish with crappie jigs on five foot bass rods. They just bit on everything for several years. The Okie I used that day was kind of an ugly light tan - almost buff color - with a blush of pinkish orange on part of it. (Don't know how to describe it otherwise). I put orange yarn in the bait loop. I think most of us beginners back then just cast the Okie out and if it stopped we set the hook. And sometimes there was a fish on it. How times have changed. I still have lots of corkies and Okies. Fun subject.