Originally used for Salmon and Steelhead, the Egg-sucking Leech pattern has found a home within the Sierra as a trout streamer. The Fly Shop hosts a Kid's Fishing Camp Scholarship Fund in his name. Unfortunately, Will passed away in 2015 in Redding, CA. Will moved onto Belize a few years later and was one of the pioneers in fly fishing for Permit. We all know that the obsequious Woolly Bugger that Russell Blessing designed in 1967 is a top ten pattern but when Will Bauer of McBauer's Fly Shop in Anchorage, AK put a chenille egg on it's nose in 1984, it became something else.an egg sucking leech. Why eggs are any different than an insect food source is beyond my pay grade but egg patterns are frowned upon. Notes: There's an unwritten rule among fly fishers that egg patterns are just like fishing with bait.
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