If you like leech patterns, you’ll love the Mohair Blood Leech. I found this pattern in Philip Rowley’s Fly Patterns for Stillwaters. Consider it a modified Carey Special and use it when searching any ...

Goat Leech, courtesy of The Hook Fly Shop. Cold winter days on still waters call for patterns that have profile, subtle attraction and the promise of protein. Silhouetted against the sky, the way a ...

On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong was becoming the first man to put bootprints on the moon, I was getting my first introduction to the sport of fly-fishing on an icy mountain stream in Idaho. It ...

Leech patterns are some of the most versatile artificials we fly fishers have. All waters have leeches in some form or another, and trout see them as prime groceries whenever they encounter them. Most ...