The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Medium - 5-7 Min
Coldwater, Warmwater
This is a great fly to get creative with to get the exact pattern you’re looking for for plenty of freshwater fish. For more of a baitfish pattern, consider tying on some pupil dumbbell eyes and adding material in front of them. Try adding some thin round rubber legs for extra movement if fishing this in swift water. You can tie this in simple woolly bugger pattern, pine squirrel leech, or a combination!
This is a great pattern for fishing stillwaters with an indicator rig. With the weight of the fly positioned beyond the hook shank and eye, this fly hangs parallel to the bottom, rather than straight up and down. This gives it a more accurate representation of an actual leech suspended in the water column. With the added weight of a large fly, this is one that is sure to get your rig in the strike zone of any stillwater.
Fish this fly as the bottom most fly on your indicator rig when fishing both stillwaters and rivers. The jig hook will allow this fly to hang hook point up resulting in less snags on the bottom. Fishing this as the bottom fly allows the other flies on your rig to float freely suspended exactly where you want them to be when fishing. It is also possible to fish this pattern as a regular streamer. The bead will sink the fly head first, and as you strip the fly in, it will lift and sink much like a neko or wacky rigged soft plastic on conventional gear.
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