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Cover backing strands with close tight wraps all the way to the lead eyes.

Step 7: Connect the trailer hook to the front hook by doubling over the backing strands and tying them onto the top of the hook shank. The lead eyes should be roughly the width of the hook eye away from the front of the fly. Using figure eight wraps, mount lead eyes onto the top of the hook shank. Step 6: Secure the front hook into the vise and cover the shank of the hook with thread wraps. Remove the fly from the vise and set aside, this will be the trailer portion of the finished fly. Step 5: Create a clean tapered head, whip finish, and apply your favorite head cement or glue. This will ensure that the fibers will all flow towards the back of the fly. Make sure to stroke fibers back with your left hand after each wrap. Step 4: While holding BOTH the rabbit strip and Polar Chenille, wrap both forward to just shy of the hook eye, trim excess, and tie off. Step 3: Tie in a strand of UV Polar Chenille in front of the rabbit strip. Advance thread in front of excess rabbit strip, but DO NOT trim excess. Make sure to part the fibers at the tie in point to avoid trapping any errant fibers. Step 2: Tie in a rabbit strip tail in which the hide of the strip is approximately the same length as the hook shank. This will be your trailer hook on the finished fly. Step 1: Starting at the eye of the hook, cover the hook shank with a layer of thread to the barb of the hook. Trailer Hook Connection: 2 Strands of 30 lb.Front Body: Purple Zonker Strip, Purple UV Polar Chenille.Rear Body: Purple Zonker Strip, Purple UV Polar Chenille.

Thread: Black UTC Ultra Thread, 140 denier.

Front Shank: Tiemco 811S, Size 2, With Hook Bend Cut Off.

The beauty of this pattern is that it’s hard to fish it wrong – Strip it, jig it, swing it. Tying the egg sucking bunny leech in articulated fashion also allows for shorter shanked trailer hooks to be used as opposed to long shank streamer hooks, resulting in a larger profile fly with less leverage on the hook when fighting fish. As if the rabbit tail and body of a classic bunny leech did not already provide enough movement to the fly, we added an articulation to the fly, thus allowing for even more movement in the water. Today, we’re coming at you with a more modern spin on a classic pattern in order to create a more versatile fly. In fact, it has been said that the egg sucking leech has the potential to catch anything that swims, and we’d be willing to bet that if tied in a variety of colors and sizes, it could produce all over the world! Whether tied in the classic “bugger style,” or in a more contemporary fashion utilizing rabbit strips, the ESL family of flies are hard to beat when targeting salmon and trout throughout all of Alaska. Photos: Kyle Shea.įew fly patterns have caught more fish in Alaska than the egg sucking leech (ESL).