In this new video, Jay Nicholas shows you how to tie the MOAL Leech (Mother of all leeches), created by Derek Fergus. This articulated steelhead leech has excellent action in the water and a short-shank, trailing hook which means major hook-up percentage. In this video, Jay lays out his methodology to tie these great summer and winter steelhead flies.
MOAL Leech fly tying materials:
Hooks: TMC 811s # 6 and Gamakatsu Octopus # 2
Junction material: Superbraid or gelspun backing
Body: Two Tone Cross cut rabbit strips
Eyes: Pseudo Eyes 7/32
Hackle: Purple schlappen
Head: Purple Ice Dub
Tools:Two c-clamp vises, Tear Mender, Micro Brushes
4 responses so far ↓
1 Andy Dalrymple // Feb 9, 2010 at 7:02 am
Thanks for all of the great educational and informative videos. I have always wrapped the rabbit around the trailing hook in the past, I will be trying this method out next time.
2 Rookie // Feb 9, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Fantastic! Thanks a lot.
3 Dave // Feb 9, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Great video! I suppose I’ll be learning to tie these very soon!
Thanks guys!
4 David Swart // Feb 11, 2010 at 12:25 am
Great tye simple,and useful would love to tye some up for some of the local bass and see how they work,can’t wait .
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