Lesson 3:
THE LEECH
The LEECH The Leech is an unorthodox
streamer with no wing. The significant parts of this fly are the puffy
marabou tail and hairy, palmerhackled body. Originally Leech is from
USA, where it is very popular fly when fishing wild rainbow trouts
and their relatives. The Egg-Sugging-Leech represents a leech, which
is stealing a grain of spawn. The english Wooly Bugger is similar
fly as the Leech. In Finland The Leech is a very popular fly, a kind
of universal fly. You catch fishes with Leeches in rivers, lakes and
even in the Baltic Sea. Small, so called Mini-Leeches are effective
for graylings. Lead headed Leeches are widely used as ice-fishing
and UL baits.
The Dressing Hook
Streamerhook: 3-4x, # 2-14
Tail: A bushy bunch of blackmarabou with
a stripe of flashabou on both sides
Rib: Oval silver tinsel
Body: Black chenille
Bodyhackle: Black Cockfeather Fronthackle:
Black
Cockfeather Head: One turn orange chenille
Try different combinations of colour, too Next week 21: the Zonker
How to tie
Base the shank with thraed. Turn 6-10 turn lead
wire on the front part of the hook.
Fasten the lead wire with thread, a drop of varnish
or super glue makes the joint stronger. The weight on the front part
of the fly, gives to Leech its pecking swimming.
Rip out of a black marabou feather (nowadays turkey)
3-4 bunches of herl and united them so, that the tips. Form a bushy
tail. Never cut the tips with scissors, use Your fingernails to rip
the tail into the right form.
Wet Your forefinder and thunb with saliva and shape
the tail like in the picture.
The lenght of the shank is the right lenght of the
tail. Fasten the tail. As extra attraction You can add a piece of
flashy flashabou on both sides of the tail.
Next a piece of chenille and oval silver tinsel is
needed. Pick out of the chenille hairs away so, that the corethreadis
visible about ¼ ".
Fasten the corethread exactly in front of the tail.
Fasten the tinsel all the way under the shank.
Turn the chenille on its place with side-by-side turns.
Leave about 1/8 " free room for the hackle and the head.
Fasten the body hackle. Turn it backward to the tail
about 4-6 turns. Leave the hackle hanging in the pliers. Turn the
tinsel forward so that it crosses the turns of the hackle.
Fasten the tinsel with turns of thread and half hitch.
Cut away the extra tinsel and hackle.
Fasten exactly in front of the body the front hackle.
Turn the fronthackle on its place with 3-4 side-by-side
forward turns. Take the hackle between the fingers of Your left hand
and shape the hackle with thread pointing a bit backwards.
Fasten the corethread of a piece of orange chenille.
Make one turn with orange chenille in front of the
hackle. Fasten it. Make a half hitch. Make the whip finish knot. Varnish
the thread on the head. The Leech is ready.
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