Marabou Monster

[Wellman 0]

My favorite leech of all times. It catches every thing from trout to walleyes.

 

 

Hook - Diachii 2220 size 2-4

Tail - Marabou

Body - Ice Chenille

"Throat" - Marabou

High Lights - Different colour marabou. (opp)

 

This is very easy to tie with a rotary vise. Oh how I miss mine.

 

 

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High Light

 

 

 

 

 

Tricky Part

 

You have two options at this point

 

1) Place marabou around hook shank. Slim Body

2) Hackle Marabou Fat head

 

Slim Body Stile

 

 

Should look like a big puff ball at this point

 

 

Lick your fingers and comb it back

 

Add High lights two both sides

 

End result

 

 

Other Colours

 

[smallieFanatic 0]

Exellent tutorial...thanks for sharing

[ArkieFlyGuy 0]

I foresee my fly box having a few of those in it in the near future... nice tie!!!

[camoham 0]

to the top.

 

ill be tying this one soon.

 

looks like this could catch all sorts of hungry monsters.

 

camoham

[David Legg 0]

Great images! Thanks for posting that step by step!

[Wellman 0]

Thanks

[carolinafisherman 0]

Sick tie. I am a HUGE fan of leeches. This one will certainly be making a guest appearance on my vise! :headbang:

 

Tight lines

-CF

[flyfishingwright 0]

Good looking fly and nice step by step too. Thanks for sharing.

[Cheri 0]

Yummy bug! I will have to add some to my box. Thank you!

[ion 0]

Hi,

I am a very begginer in tying and I hope my elementary question doesn't bother you.

It is where you say:

"You have two options at this point

 

1) Place marabou around hook shank. Slim Body

2) Hackle Marabou Fat head

 

Slim Body Stile

..."

I don't understand, from my point of view looks like you did both of them.

Is it there only the slim body version?

 

 

thank you

 

[bigdewy 0]

Just what those big Pyramid Lake cutthroats will be looking for!!!

[eastern fly 0]

Good looking fly. I will have some of them also.

 

Kevin

[Wellman 0]

Hi,

I am a very begginer in tying and I hope my elementary question doesn't bother you.

It is where you say:

"You have two options at this point

 

1) Place marabou around hook shank. Slim Body

2) Hackle Marabou Fat head

 

Slim Body Stile

..."

I don't understand, from my point of view looks like you did both of them.

Is it there only the slim body version?

 

 

thank you

 

Hi Ion

 

1st off welcome to the site!

 

 

 

There is not 2 versions off this fly, just two ways to get to the end result. In the step by step I used the slim body method by striping the marabou off the plum and tying it around the shank of the hook. As a result of using this method there is no big head in the fly because there is no stem. I use this method about 98% of the time.

 

The 2nd method is like tying a bugger or a soft hackle. What I mean by this is that you tie the head of the fly by wrapping the plum around the shank of the hook like you would with a hackle. As a result of the stem being in the fly it would have a little bigger head. This method I use when I add a bead behind the marabou.

 

Picture of a slim head.

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

Wellman AKA Chris

 

 

 

[Wellman 0]

Psst I don't know if I mentioned this in the original post ,but this pattern is meant for stiff marabou. The stuff you really wouldn't use for any of pattern.

[ion 0]

Now I've got it.

Thank you.

I will try it for sure.