{"id":71,"date":"2022-02-16T13:09:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T21:44:18","slug":"catatonic-leech","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/?page_id=71","title":{"rendered":"Catatonic Leech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dean Baayens wrote about the Catatonic Leech in the 1998 issue of Barry Mitchell&#8217;s Alberta Fishing Guide. The secret to fishing this fly is to do nothing. Suspend it about 4 feet under an indicator and let it sit for twice as long as you can stand. Twitch it once, and let it sit. The trout will swim over and eat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tie it a little different than Dean does. Here is how I do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-4.jpeg 432w, http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-4-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-5.jpeg 432w, http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-5-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"429\" height=\"294\" src=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-6.jpeg 429w, http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-6-300x206.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Catatonic Leech<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hook: Mustad 75980 size 10-12<br>Thread: olive<br>Weight: lead wire<br>Tail: olive marabou, 2 bunches<br>Body: olive marabou, dubbed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/Trip%20Pics\/Don4w.jpg\">trout<\/a>&nbsp;were caught with an olive Catatonic Leech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Fish2w.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-807\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Fish2w.jpg 750w, http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Fish2w-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Baayens wrote about the Catatonic Leech in the 1998 issue of Barry Mitchell&#8217;s Alberta Fishing Guide. The secret to fishing this fly is to do nothing. Suspend it about 4 feet under an indicator and let it sit for twice as long as you can stand. Twitch it once, and let it sit. The trout will swim over and eat it. I tie it a little different than Dean does. Here is how I do it. Catatonic Leech Hook: Mustad 75980 size 10-12Thread: oliveWeight: lead wireTail: olive marabou, 2 bunchesBody: olive marabou, dubbed This&nbsp;&nbsp;trout&nbsp;were caught with an olive Catatonic Leech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/808"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}