StreamerbeginnerPacific Northwest
Bunny Leech
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The Bunny Leech is what happens when fly tying achieves perfect economy of motion. A rabbit strip on a hook with a cone head. That is the entire recipe, and it is responsible for more steelhead caught by beginners than any pattern three times its complexity. The rabbit strip undulates in the current with a lifelike swimming action that no synthetic material has ever replicated, because rabbit fur has been evolving its hydrodynamic properties for millions of years and Flashabou has not. Simple, effective, and honest -- the Bunny Leech is the working-class hero of the steelhead fly box.
Quick Facts
Where to Fish It
Cowlitz River
WA · Tailwater
Sandy River
OR · Coastal Stream
Rogue River
OR · Freestone River
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