Michigan Flies
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Photo © Quinn for Fly Deal Flies, used with permission · Egg Sucking Leech Black - Steelhead

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Egg-Sucking Leech

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StreamerWill Bauer, Alaska, about 1984; Michigan recipe by Current Works

$6.50 each

A leech profile with an egg hot spot, recognized as one of the most effective flies on Great Lakes tributary steelhead streams and, per Current Works, less intrusive than most patterns for selective fish. Betts fishes it for Pere Marquette fall salmon, and Michigan coho anglers swing it through runs and tailouts. Dead-drift or swing black, purple or olive bodies with chartreuse, orange, red or pink heads from September through April; #8 versions take pink salmon.

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Setups

Swinging flies (spey / switch) · Indicator nymphing · Chuck and duck · Streamers

When to fish it on the Two Hearted River
Part of the Two Hearted River box. Months the fly finder calls for this pattern here, for steelhead, chinook salmon, coho salmon.
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Pattern notes
Full hatch, egg, and forage links with sources.