Hairy Leech

Recipe: Hook -- Mustad 9672 #10 or any 3x long hook. Tail and Body -- Bunny hair cut from a zonker strip or skin. Eyes -- Brass bead chain ( optional).

1. Tie bead chain eyes on hook leaving enough room for a small head.

2. Tie on a tail using one or two clumps of bunny hair.

3.  At the point where the tail starts, make a dubbing loop about 3 to 4 inches long. Hang your dubbing loop twister off the end of the loop to keep it straight and in place. Advance your tying thread a little ways toward the eyes. 

4.  From the zonker strip or skin, cut a fair sized clump of hair.

5.  If you're right handed, hold the loop open with the fingers of your left hand and with your right hand ( holding the hair between thumb and forefinger ), insert the bunny hair into the loop, so that about 2/3 of the tip ends stick out one side of the loop and about 1/3 of the butt ends stick out the other side. Try to spread the hair evenly along the dubbing loop.

6.  Using your twister, twist the dubbing loop about 20+ times. Enough times  so that you can't pull the hair out of the loop. The dubbing loop should now look like a hairy dubbing rope. Clamp a pair of hackle pliers on the end of the rope and remove the twister.

7.  Wind the dubbing rope along the hook shank while stroking the hairs toward the back. Continue winding until all the hair in the rope is wrapped around the hook shank. With your tying thread, tie off and clip the tag end of the dubbing rope.

8.  You might have to repeat this process a couple of times until you reach the brass eyes and which point you bring the tag end of the rope to the front of the eyes and with your tying thread tie off and clip the tag end and make a small head and whip finish. A couple of drops of head cement or lacquer and it's done.

Fish this pattern like any streamer pattern but keep in mind it's supposed to imitate a swimming leech  which usually has a somewhat irregular swimming motion. Short jerky retrieves seem to work well. Good luck.