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Lo-rent Leech

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Wet/nymph hook (Ahrex FW571) with a brass bead, 12
  • Thread Orange 8/0 (waxed)

Materials

  • Brass bead Gold bead
  • Lead wire (.015, 8-10 wraps)
  • Bird fur / spey hackle (Whiting) Olive grizzly hackle (tail structure)
  • Simi Seal / Mega Simi Seal dubbing Olive ice dub (body)
  • Super glue / Zap-A-Gap
  • UV resin (or head cement)

How to tie it

  1. Place the hook with a gold brass bead in the vise, add 8-10 wraps of.015 lead wire, and shove it up into the bead. Start orange thread behind the lead, lock the lead in place, and lay a smooth orange base back to just short of the tail point.
  2. Tie in one small olive-grizzly bird-fur (spey hackle) feather as a structural tail about 1.5 shank-lengths long; secure it and trim the stem. Add a little Zap-A-Gap and lay a smooth orange underbody over the tie-in as a hot underbody.
  3. Pull a clump of olive Simi Seal about the diameter of the hook body, align the fibers loosely, wrap it once loosely around the shank, then add a couple of securing wraps as you advance slightly; divide the fibers and fold them rearward, building a small thread dam so they puff back.
  4. Repeat with a second clump the same size just forward, wrapping loosely, dividing, and folding back with a thread dam to build the taper and profile.
  5. For the head, place a final clump loosely around the bead, wiggle the thread through, divide the fibers, and fold them back; build a small orange thread dam behind the bead as a hot collar.
  6. Whip finish with two three-turn whips, trim, and add a small drop of UV resin (or head cement) to the collar; brush the fibers back toward the bead and shape.

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