Fly Tying: Balanced Blood Leech

The Balanced Blood Leech is designed to fish under an indicator. It is a great early season "Ice Out" fly choice in a popular Stillwater color scheme. Suspend the Balanced Blood Leech at the depth fish are traveling, often 3’ to 5’ deep. Find a traveling lane where fish are moving and cast upwind. If it is windy, just let your leech travel/swim/drift along downwind. In calmer weather, retrieve slowly with frequent pauses. Let the fly do the work. It will call them in.