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Egg Sucking Leech — Fly Tying Pattern & Recipe

Egg Sucking Leech

May 8, 2025

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Caught my first steelhead on this pattern. It works for a lot of different species and conditions. Woolly bugger with an egg 👍

Where I fish it

saltwater rivers lakes

Target species

Coho Salmon Chinook Salmon Pink Salmon Chum Salmon Cutthroat Trout Steelhead Rainbow Trout Brown Trout

Recipe

10 minutes

Hook: 2xl Streamer

Thread: 70 Denier Black

Tail/underbody: Black Marabou

Body: Black Chenille

Hackle: Black Saddle Hackle

Head: Chenille

Step 1

Step 1

Add a marabou tail on to a streamer hook using the excess to build a body.

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West Coast BC Salmon