The shenks minnow is pretty deadly on smallmouth. With the white wabbit fur all you have to do is make a dubbing loop with you thread, cut off some wabbit hair, fill you loop, wrap, and then tease out the hair. Works good.
How about dying some of it ???
The fish are always right.
Ian Colin James "Puke Fly" is another white rabbit fly that I like.
Another vote for the Shenk's minnow
A perfect match for immature fall fish
The main forage in my local smallmouth river
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart
dye the fur any color you want
You can dye the rabbit any color you want using either Rite dye or Kool Aid.
I came back from Alaska where I bought lots of scrap Rabbit and other fur. I dyed up many large batches of rabbit in assorted greens and other colors using Kool Aid dyes. I also received an old coat coming apart at the seams as a gift from a young girl that I took a few hours of my time to explain the different furs in my tying room. She wanted the rabbit coat to be recycled and gave it as a thank you to me one day.
I have used some of that rabbit to tie up my own take on the Usual where I use rabbit instead of possum fur for the tail and collar and using uni yarn for the body. I also tied up many spring creek specials which is really nothing more the rabbit fur cut from the hide in a dubbing loop of wire and spun onto the hook with not a single other materiel. I also use the rabbit in place of marabou for the tails on my woolly buggers and some for soft hackle flies by reverse tying the material over the eye of the hook and bending it back toward the bend and locking it back with the thread head. I have also made up many types of assorted dubbing's for many different types of flies from those two sources of scrape rabbit fur.
One thing I have noticed is that not all the hides from old coats or scraps from making coats make good rabbit strips so you might want to test a small piece of hide in some water first to see how it dries before cutting it all into strips. I had a small percentage of the hides become brittle after getting wet and I not really sure why but at least its only been on a small percentage. Those scraps do not go to waste but become the dubbing, tails and collars of other flies after the fur is cut from the hide.
Thanks for all the help guys!
Nightangler, You have a PM.
Chris
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Chris,
Here is a Rabbit Crawfish pattern; http://trollingfly.com/size6subpages/size6crawdad.html
Doug
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Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them- these are the best guides for man. A.E.
you could make something like this also
use any color combos you think would look good .
you could use spey or genie fowl for the forward hackle also
you could also incorporate some crystal flash into the pattern
glow streamer
top pic
hook size 2 4x
under body flat red tinsel
over body stretched out glow in the dark bracelet material
wing silver tinsel (Christmas garland )or flashabu
over wing synthetic hair blue and green mix .
bunny streamer
bottom pic
hook size 2 4x
tail four pink saddle hackles
body gray bunny strip palmerd
hackle red marabou and pink saddle hackle should come back to about
1 /2 of fly body
Last edited by the rod tosser; 01-05-2008 at 05:02 PM. Reason: updateing info
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