Bead Head Egg Sucking Leech

[Phil Lilley]

Bead Head Egg Sucking Leech

Recipe:

Hook: TMC 5263 Sz 6-10

Thread: Uni thread / color to match body

Tail: Marabou / color to match body

Body: Mo-Hair yarn

Bead: Lead bead 4mm / Fl. Orange , Fl Chartreuse

Tying instruction

Go ahead and slide the bead on first. Start the thread just behind the bead and wrap to the bend.

Tie in your marabou at the back. What I do that is probably different then what most people do is I go ahead and leave the excess and tie it in until I get right behind the bead and then cut it off. That will create a body if you want the body to be bigger.

Note: If you look at picture 5,and 6 you will see what I am talking about.

You can’t see this step either, but what I do in this step is when you get the strand of mo-hair yarn cut to length. Wrap it around the thread and then you have doubled up the strand to become two strands and that will make it become a bigger strand to wind forward. It just makes the body bigger and meatier.

Wrap the mo-hair yarn up to the bead and tie it off.

Cut the excess off and whip finish the head.