My winter steelhead fly rig is pretty extreme, but then I can dredge the bottom of the Hoh when it is damn near out too. What I do is start with a 12 weight saltwater taper dry line, get a 30 foot chunk of Deepwater Express, cut it in 3 pieces (5, 10, and 15 feet), get some hollow dacron squidding line and a loop hook (all this stuff is available at the fly shop in Lacey and the loop hook comes with instructions), make loops for the ends of your lines and superglue them on, and just loop on the piece of DWE that you want. Of course you had better be using a spey rod, or do what I did, which is make a flyrod out of a 12 foot Lamniglass bobber rod blank, because that 15 foot chunk of DWE that you will need on the Hoh looped on to the end of your 12 weight line will add up to 16 weight Yeah, kind of extreme, I know, but with this rig I can fish any water at any remotely fishable height, the stuff sinks at over a foot a second, and with a rag fly is just as effective as bait casting as you are bouncing the bottom all through the drift. The loops go through the guides real well, especially important when landing a fish. I've caught hundreds of steelhead, right up to a 21 pounder, with this setup