Wedeking's Jayhawker Fly

A Pacific Northwest native, Brett Wedeking was born with steelhead on the brain. He has spent over 20 years pursuing these elusive creatures, and most of that time with a spey rod in hand. After many years of guiding steelhead anglers on the Olympic Peninsula, Skagit and Alaska, he recently joined the LCO team. His fly designs and steelhead fishing philosophies reflect knowledge gleaned from Northwest luminaries like Harry Lemire, Mike Kinney and Dec Hogan. Wild steelhead are his spirit animal.

But he might have been from Kansas.