CDC and Bunny Panfish Streamer

davkrat · February 7, 2011, 6:09pm

The kids are out of school today so I figured I?d whip up some flies and take my son down to a pond and try to get some bluegill. My favorite streamer is John Barr?s Slumpbuster. A few years ago I started tying these smaller versions for trout and sunfish. Really quick tie and there is no material on earth more life like than CDC and Bunny fur.

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[li]1/8? bead on a #12 TMC 3761 plus a good amount of fine lead wraps.[/li][/ol]

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[li]Dub a nice tapered abdomen leaving plenty of room for tying in the bunny later.[/li][/ol]

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[li]Add an underwing of flash tinsel[/li][/ol]

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[li]Cut a very short strip of zonker fur, it helps to clip the corners where you will tie in the strip.[/li][/ol]

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[li]Tie in right behind the bead and wrap down leaving a good base for the ?hackle?[/li][/ol]

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[li]Tie in a long CDC feather by the tip and wrap forward to the bead.[/li][/ol]

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[li]Finished fly. I like dark brown and yellow but the possible combos are endless. The natural gray CDC tends to work with any color dubbing and bunny fur.[/li][/ol]

FishnDave · February 7, 2011, 7:11pm

That’s A GOOD-LOOKING PATTERN there! I don’t have any nice CDC feathers like that, so I’ll have to improvise a bit. In charteuse or white, I bet those would be effective on crappies and white bass too!

Flyfish_Dog · February 7, 2011, 8:29pm

Nice ties!! They should really catch em.

system · February 7, 2011, 8:43pm

davkrat,
Those are good looking flies and great pics. Very nicely done!

dave_potts · February 7, 2011, 8:47pm

Good looking fly. I’ll have tp tie some up. Probably a good Bass fly too in a little larger size.

Dave

kelkay · February 7, 2011, 9:51pm

Bonadfide fish catchers for sure!

quivira_kid · February 7, 2011, 11:12pm

Now that is nice! I know a couple folks who are gonna have to try this one… including me. In a #10 and #12 that should wreak havoc on some gills and green sunfish around here!

Uncle_Jesse · February 7, 2011, 11:36pm

I’m thinking I have some purple bunny, yellow chenille an light blue webby feathers, that reminds me of something.

quivira_kid · February 8, 2011, 3:14am

Got a couple black ones, couple chartreuse ones, and I’m working on some that will be “electric chicken” aka pink and chartreuse. Now I just need the county lake to soften up some so I can fish!

jeffro · February 8, 2011, 4:25am

I like it alot…thanks for posting well done sir.

FishnDave · February 8, 2011, 3:32pm

Here’s a chartreuse one I did last night for crappies (no CDC, so I subbed Hungarian Partridge for the collar hackle):

Still seemed like a big bite for a bluegill, so I tried one using Pine Squirrel:

mahanvey · February 8, 2011, 9:04pm

These are GREAT little ties for small fish and large Crappie! They’ll eat 'em up for sure!

davkrat · February 9, 2011, 2:03am

That squirrel is a great idea. I’ve tied these really small using squirrel. Eventually it gets hard to keep them down as they get real small as the fur really likes to suspend. That’s great though for dragging through the shallows especially when the gills are on beds.

Here’s a video I shot on the pond the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3HCQ7AggJE

steveks · February 9, 2011, 3:36pm

I guess now I have to tie up about 20 of these in assorted colors and try them out.

melk · February 9, 2011, 6:08pm

Great flies!! I knew I LOVED this site for a reason!!
Mike

wet_fly_guy · February 10, 2011, 5:50am

Great flys !

Will do some up for this spring

wet

Uncle_Jesse · February 10, 2011, 8:37pm

Dave and ya’ll inspired me to try something that suggested a small bluegill. Worse comes to worse, I can hang it in my ear and go to Mardi Gras.

Steven · February 10, 2011, 8:52pm

I’m thinking an improvement might be to tie it Matuka style

Uncle_Jesse · February 10, 2011, 9:29pm

If you mean attach the zonker strip to the body, I used the fabric fusion to do that.

FishnDave · February 10, 2011, 10:40pm

Its another way to do it.
If you look at the originals and the tying sequence…the skin of the bunny strip is very short…The bulk of the length is the hair itself. Of course you don’t want to tie down the hair. As the video showed, it has awesome action in the water, which I think is helped by the fact the tail-end of the skin is kept loose.
For most fish species that is probably all good. For bluegills with their small mouths, keeping the entire skin section in close contact to the hook shank (tying or glueing) MIGHT be an improvement, in that the fish would be less likely to bite the end of the fur away from the body of the fly, thereby missing taking the hook?

Regardless, its a cool pattern!