How To Tie The Egg-Sucking Leech Streamer

It's a leech, it's an egg, it's a leech eating an egg. That is at least 2 or 3 major food groups. All species of salmon, steelhead, largemouth bass and large trout attack them with abandon. This is the Zonker-style leech with a rabbit strip wing and tail. They can also be tied Woolly Bugger style with a marabou tail and palmered hackle body. Our favorite colors are purple and black. Put some in your fly box. Use them. Enough said!



HOOK SIZES: 2,4,6,8

HOOK OPTIONS: Tiemco 760SP, Mustad 79580, Daiichi 2220

THREAD: Danville 6/0 to match head color

RIBBING: Medium silver or gold  oval or flat tinsel

BODY: Chenille to match

WING: Rabbit hide cut Zonker-style

HACKLE: Saddle hackle to match tied as a throat

EGG: Medium Red, Orange or Pink Fluorescent Chenille

OTHER EGG OPTIONS: Egg yarn or McFly Foam; Painted Beadheads

HEAD FINISH: Water-based Head Cement