Spring Wiggler Olive

The Spring Wiggler – Olive is the natural-toned original of Michigan's great steelhead pattern: an olive chenille body under a squirrel-tail shellback and tail, with palmered hackle pulsing along its length. Born to imitate Hexagenia nymphs—the "wigglers" Great Lakes tributaries are full of—this is the version closest to the real bug.

Olive earns its keep in clear water and on pressured spring runs, where steelhead inspect rather than react. Dead-drift it through gravel runs like a nymph and let the squirrel back and breathing hackle do the convincing.

Best for:

• Clear-water Great Lakes steelhead
  
• Natural hex nymph imitations
  
• Dead-drift presentations through gravel

📌 Pro Tip: When bright wigglers draw refusals on pressured water, the olive original is the answer—it reads as food, not flag.