Looking For A Good Balanced Leech Pattern

[Quentin]

Hey all,

 

I'm looking for a good balanced leech pattern. I've balanced up a dozen hooks, but now I can't find a pattern that I like. I googled "balanced leech pattern" and came up with a few; one was from Phil Rowley's site, and it looks essentially like a sparse woolley bugger. I did see one picture I really liked, and that was of a balanced leech - damselfly nymph. But, it was only one picture, and no real instructions for tying.

 

If you've got a pattern -- especially with some step-by-step, I'd really appreciate it if you'd share!

 

QT

[Terry H]

Have a look at the FlyBC forum. There a number of threads dealing with balanced leeches and some good patterns have been posted. Here's one that I think looks deadly.

 

http://forum.flybc.ca/index.php?showtopic=35761&hl=balanced+leech

 

Terry

[jfisherman]

Quentin, Greg here, are you taping/timeshifting Leroy Hyatt's "Angler's Art"? On February 4th Carolyn Sells tied a "balanced fly" on the show.

[Quentin]

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<li>No, I've never heard of Angler's Art....but I'll look into it.  Maybe there's a PVR in my future??</li>

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<p>Thanks for the link to flybc.  That's a good looking fly <br />

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QT</p>

[jfisherman]

Quentin, Greg here, "the Angler's Art" program is on Saturday mornings on channel 22 at 7:30 AM. There's also a chance it's on one of the discs in the library.

[phlygirl]

Hi Quentin,

 

Check out the link below for a step-by-step for the Balanced Leech on Phil Rowley's website.

http://flycraftangling.com/index.asp?p=134

 

Cheers,

Aaron