Egg-Sucking Leech
Description
The Egg-Sucking Leech is a Pacific salmon and steelhead streamer that suggests a dark leech trailing a loose salmon egg. The black marabou tail pulses in current, the chenille body gives the fly a simple silhouette, and the fluorescent orange head adds a strong trigger in stained water, low light, and fall salmon runs.
Materials
- hook: 3X Long Streamer Hook
- thread: Black, 6/0 Thread.
- body: Black Chenille
- head: Black Head Lacquer
- tail: Black Marabou
- hackle: Black Saddle Hackle
- head: Fluorescent Orange Chenille
Tying Instructions
- 1.
Secure a 3X Long Streamer Hook in the vise and start the black thread just behind the eye.
- 2.
Wrap a smooth thread base back to the hook bend.
- 3.
Tie in a sparse black marabou tail at the bend, about one hook shank long.
- 4.
Tie in the black saddle hackle by the tip at the base of the tail.
- 5.
Tie in the black chenille at the same point and advance the thread to one eye length behind the eye.
- 6.
Wrap the black chenille forward in touching turns to form the body.
- 7.
Secure the chenille one eye length behind the eye and trim the excess.
- 8.
Palmer the black saddle hackle forward over the body in open turns.
- 9.
Secure the hackle behind the eye and trim the excess.
- 10.
Tie in the fluorescent orange chenille directly in front of the black body.
- 11.
Wrap the orange chenille in tight, overlapping turns to build a small round egg head behind the eye.
- 12.
Secure the orange chenille, trim the excess, and build a neat thread head.
- 13.
Whip finish and apply black head lacquer.