RUBBER TAIL LEECH

SUBMITTED BY: Ruben Breitkreutz


Fly Tied and Photo taken by Ruben Breitkreutz

I have played around with this pattern this spring. I have tied it with several different colours and different body materials.

FISHING METHOD:  I have fished this pattern on both floating and sinking lines. In shallow water, use a slow pull retrieve with several short 2 to 4 inch pulls every 15-20 seconds. In the evening, you may want to speed up your retrieve. On sinking lines let the fly sink near the bottom before you start your retrieve. I use a 3 to 4 second full hand twist with several 2 to 6 inch pulls to retrieve the fly.  

 Hook

 Mustad R-72, size 8-2x or 10-3x

 Thread

 6/0 or 8/0 black

 Rib

 Copper wire - fine

 Tail

 Scud back or stretch flex – 1/8 inch black or brown

 Body

 Marabou – black and red or brown and red

TYING NOTES:

1.    Pinch your barb down on the hook.

2.    Lay down a thread base on the shank of the hook.

3.    Tie in the tail material on top of the hook shank. Trim a point at the end of the tail, leaving the tail extend past the hook shank by about 3 /4 inch.

4.    Tie in the ribbing material.

5.    Form a dubbing loop and add the body material in the loop in sparse quantities. 

6.    Twist the loop in to a dubbing noodle.

7.    Pull the fibres in one direction before you wind the noodle up the hook shank.

8.    Counter wind the rib and tie of at the head of the fly.

9.    Whip finish and brush the fibres back.

   CAUTION: Be sure to hang on to your rod while fishing this pattern. Good Luck!