StreamerbeginnerPacific Northwest
Bunny Leech
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Available Sizes#2 - #8
Color Variations
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Pacific Fly Fishers
Matched on Pacific Northwest, streamer flies, trout. Pacific Northwest shop with a large online catalog and steelhead/trout regional relevance.
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Fly Fish Food
Matched on streamer flies, trout, leech. Strong technical tying and trout catalog coverage, especially nymphs, dries, and stillwater flies.
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Fulling Mill Flies
Matched on streamer flies, trout, streamer. Large pattern house with broad freshwater and saltwater fly categories.
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Big Y Fly Co.
Matched on streamer flies, trout, streamer. Broad by-type catalog useful for common benchmark patterns and inexpensive backups.
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Alaska Fly Fishing Goods
Matched on streamer flies, steelhead, leech. Alaska-specific fly shop with fly categories for trout, char, grayling, salmon, and steelhead.
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Visit sourceThe Bunny Leech is what happens when fly tying achieves perfect economy of motion. A rabbit strip on a hook with a cone head. That is the entire recipe, and it is responsible for more steelhead caught by beginners than any pattern three times its complexity. The rabbit strip undulates in the current with a lifelike swimming action that no synthetic material has ever replicated, because rabbit fur has been evolving its hydrodynamic properties for millions of years and Flashabou has not. Simple, effective, and honest -- the Bunny Leech is the working-class hero of the steelhead fly box.
Quick Facts
TypeStreamer
Difficultybeginner
SeasonsFall, Winter, Spring
Target SpeciesSteelhead, Rainbow Trout, Sea-Run Cutthroat
Sizes#2 - #8
Best LocationsCowlitz River, WA; Sandy River, OR; Rogue River, OR
Where to Fish It
Cowlitz River
WA · Tailwater
Sandy River
OR · Coastal Stream
Rogue River
OR · Freestone River
Map unavailable. Locations for Bunny Leech: Cowlitz River, WA; Sandy River, OR; Rogue River, OR
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