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Buck Nasty Leech

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Difficulty Icon Medium - 5-7 Min
Water Category Icon Coldwater

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Tying Recipe
  • Hook: Jig hook 2x strong 2x wide 2x long
  • Bead: Slotted tungsten bead 3.5mm black
  • Thread: UTC 70 denier black
  • Tail: Rabbit zonker fur black
  • Rib: Uni soft wire small black
  • Body: Pheasant tail black
  • Wing: CDC feathers black
  • Hot spot: Orange bucktail
  • Collar: Krystal dubbing flash
  • Hook: Use any streamer jig hook that you like. Standard hooks will work well too.
  • Bead: Use slotted beads when using jig hooks, and standard beads when using standard hooks.
  • Thread: 70 denier or 8/0 thread is nice to have here for the bucktail at the end of the fly, as it won’t break as easily. 6/0 or 140 denier may be too thick for this fly.
  • Tail: Marabou is a great tail for small leech streamers.
  • Rib: Use any round wire that you like.
  • Body: Dubbing can make great leech bodies.
  • Wing: A little bit of long fibered dubbing in a dubbing loop can work here for a stringy collar.
  • Hot spot: Deer hair can work great here.
  • Collar: Any flashy dubbing that you like will work here.

Tie this up in any color combination that you like. The nice thing about the hot spot with this fly, is that you can get really creative with the color combinations with different hotspot colors like pink and chartreuse. Feel free to add an extra wing in front of the hot spot for something that pushes a bit more water

This is a great fly to have during dirty or high water conditions, as the hot spot will help the fly stick out a little more. The size of the fly allows it to be fished under an indicator easily as a lead fly. The jig hardware also helps this fly ride hook point up, allowing it to be fished along the bottom with confidence, and find more fish than snags.

Fish this any way you like to fish little leech patterns like this. Either under an indicator, as the point fly on a euro nymphing rig, or as a standard streamer by stripping it in. If nymphing this fly, let the fly swing a little bit at the end of the drift to get a little movement that might influence a fish into striking.

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