Ruby Eyed Leech

- By Bob Morenski

In the fall of 2010, Ron Granneman had a very successful day using a fly that he bought on the internet. He was fishing up on the west end of Patterson Lake along the bulrushes and using the fly under a strike indicator. Doing a little research, I learned that the fly was developed by stillwater fly fishing guru, Brian Chan, who is a fisheries biologist from British Columbia. We tied a few of these up but never fished them.

This past fall, Dave LaFrance caught many trout on the pattern fishing it around the edges of the reeds. For those of you who do not tie your own fly patterns, this fly pattern is available commercially from Feather Craft and many other fly shops around the US and Canada and comes in several colors.

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