Fly Tying: Strip Leech
Want some meat to toss around during run-off? Try a big, juicy Strip Leech. If you’re a tier, Check out the recent “TieTalk” post I wrote up for my friends at “Field & Stream” magazine’s FlyTalk blog. The Strip Leech pattern shown is one of GB’s, and goes back to the days of bell-bottoms (I’ve been on a 70′s kick lately—I need to modernize!).
This fly traces it roots to the Matuka and the “Strip Fly” of Wisconsin-based tier, Royce Dam. It’s a pattern that I tied a lot when I was growing up and it’s also the fly that caught me my first two-foot brown trout (as a 10-year old kid, that was pretty exciting). If you have a vise and the right materials, go tie!
Note: It was nearly 1am when I wrote the post for FlyTalk. If I missed something in the instruction set, I’ll get the guys at F&S to update it for me.
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