When to use it
- Where the target species, water speed, depth, and season support the exact pattern.
- Use the linked river report as a planning lead, then verify current regulations and local conditions before choosing the fly.
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Wet Fly · guide 105
Hoh Bo Spey
Charles St. Pierre's sparse Intruder-style steelhead fly with a compact shank, dubbing station, flash, and marabou collar.
- Common size
- Approximately two inches in the reviewed Orvis recipe; hook and shank vary
- Colors reviewed
- black and blue, olive and black, pink, cerise, and chartreuse
- Imitates
- suggestive swimming prey, steelhead attractor profile
The reviewed black-and-blue form uses a short shank and separate trailing hook, a brushed dubbing station, sparse flash, and a flowing marabou collar. It is smaller and simpler than many two-station Intruders.
Technical illustration
Identification views
Hoh Bo Spey reviewed side profile
A schematic profile emphasizing short shank and separate trailing hook.
- View
- reviewed side profile
- Color shown
- black-and-blue marabou with sparse flash and a brushed dubbing station
- Look for
- short shank; separate trailing hook; brushed dubbing station; flowing marabou collar
On the water
Understand it. Then fish it.
The river, depth, insects, and fish behavior still decide the final presentation. These are reviewed starting points—not a claim about what is happening today.
How to fish it
- Choose line density and weight for the target depth, then preserve the silhouette and movement the pattern was designed to show.
- Change depth, angle, speed, or pause length before assuming color alone is the problem.
Mistakes to avoid
- Treating every similarly colored fly as Hoh Bo Spey.
- Using a report label as permission to fish through closures, spawning fish, redds, restricted water, or a prohibited rig.
Variant control
Small changes matter.
Three reviewed technical illustrations show one identified form, its construction, and its fishing orientation. Hook style, size, color, weighting, trailer-hook system, and local legal status remain labeled variables.
Reviewed identified form
The reviewed black-and-blue form uses a short shank and separate trailing hook, a brushed dubbing station, sparse flash, and a flowing marabou collar. It is smaller and simpler than many two-station Intruders.- Colors shown
- black and blue, olive and black, pink, cerise, and chartreuse
- Weighting
- Weight, line density, hook system, and current determine depth; construction alone does not.
Review trail
Sources, rights, and limits.
Pattern facts were reviewed on 2026-07-12. Every image has its own rights record; photographed hand-tied flies may still vary slightly in proportion.