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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

The EZ Bunny Fly - detailed instructions


























Hook:  Size 6 streamer hook
Cone head:  Small nickel cone head with eyeball
Thread:  6/0 white
Tail flash:  Pearl Flashabou
Tail/Body:  Small white rabbit zonker strip
Throat:  Ice Dub – UV Pearl


Legendary fly tier Jack Dennis wrote the “Three Commandments” for tying flies.  He states that flies should be durable, easy and quick, and that they should catch fish.  The EZ Bunny Fly is the epitome of this ideology.  The fly is super durable, you can tie one in less than 5 minutes, and it catches huge trout.  You can tie this fly in yellow, brown, green, or red.  The white is really effective and fun to fish because you can see it so well in the water.  It is really exciting to watch it swim across a run and move trout like an electrofishing wand.

Step 1
Tie in about 1 inch of Flashabou off the back of the hook.

Step 2











 









Tie a rabbit strip to the back of hook for the tail of the fly.  There should be about 2 inches of leather for the tail length.  Don’t cut the long end of the rabbit strip as you’ll use this for the body.

Step 3























Fold the long (body) strip back and make some thread turns right in front of it to really lock in the rabbit strip.
Step 4























Apply a small amount of your favorite glue to the shank of the hook.  Then, palmer the long strip of rabbit up to the cone.  This creates the body of the fly.
 
Step 5























Apply some of the Ice Dub to the thread and make a few wraps behind the cone to hide any thread wraps and then, whip finish.

Monday, April 21, 2014

It's springtime in America



























I looked through my logs and noticed that on this day in previous years, I was seeing Mother's Day caddis hatches on the Clark Fork.  We don't get monster hatches like the Yellowstone or Madison but we do get a solid showing if the conditions are right.  This has been a unique year and conditions have not been right yet and I don't know If they ever will be, so far as fishing is concerned.

Mother's Day caddis






















March brown emerger


























My old snapshot camera used to take great super-macro pictures like this old picture of a Mother's Day Caddis and March brown emerger.  I can't wait to get a macro lens for my real camera.


























The Easy Mother's Day Caddis

HOOK: size 20-14 (18-16 is best)
THREAD: 8/0 color to match dubbing
DUBBING: Hand blend Super Fine dry fly dubbing in natural colors (tan, olive, yellow, brown)
WING: CDC oiler puffs
THORAX: Dub some CDC and develop a small thorax over where you tie in the wing

This fly is a great fly for teaching beginners how to tie dry flies.  This is a super effective fly and they are so easy to tie, you can do it while you are driving!


-RBM Chronicles does not promote distracted driving-