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The “Egg-Sucking Leech” has proven to be a very effective fly pattern for anglers targeting steelhead in the Chautauqua County Lake Erie tributaries. Photo courtesy of FleegersFlies.com The winter ...

Steelhead trout are not supposed to actively feed after they start their fresh-water spawning runs. So why do they strike our flies? And why are egg patterns as effective as they are?