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I went out again this weekend and camped from saturday morning until monday afternoon. I just bought a new 2wt echo glass and wanted to break it in, so i went to a lake i know will almost always produce big numbers of 14"-18" native rainbows. I primarily fished a vampire leech casted and stripped to risers but also fished a wine/gold chironomid aswell. Both produced fish but the vampire leech was the better producer. I caught 16 rainbows saturday evening on my vintage 6 wt wright and mcgill fiberglass. Mostly between 15"-17". The next morning i set up my 2 wt echo glass and immediately got into lots of fish. I ended up catching 37 fish by noon with one fish measuring 18 1/2" and likely weighing a bit over 2 lbs. From 1 oclock to 4 i took a nap then got out again until sundown and caught 24 more rainbows. The next morning the action died off a bit and I only managed 1 fish to hand in a couple hours so i packed up and left.

branweeds

5/23/2018 6:34:09 AM

That is a sweet looking leech. I've been using either black or olive leeches with an orange bead head, which have produced well for bows around here. I tied the green ones with Icelandic sheep hair and I really like the way they look and fish. I got a few wine colored leeches from the fly shop and had a killer day on those as well.

jonb

5/23/2018 6:49:04 AM

I love wine leeches, black leeches with red flash are a must have too. This vampire leech is basically a size 6 hook a small bit of black marabou and a pinch of flash for the tail, medium black uv polar chenille and a chartreuse tungsten bead. The tungsten is a key element and i like to fish it off a full floating line that way when i strip it in it lifts and dives as its being retrieved rather than a horizontal retrieve with a sinking line. Thanks for reading.

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