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| Fly recipe Hook: 3x Streamer Hook (Dai Riki # 710) Thread: Gray Flat Wax Mono Eyes: Lead Dumbell Eyes Body: Olive over White Bunny Strips Hackle: Red Hackle Fins: Partridge or Pheasant Feathers Glue: Pliobond or Flex Zap Adhesive Tying instructions: Step 1: Insert the hook into the vise and attach the thread to the hook in the middle of the hook shank. Step 2: Bring your thread to the front third of the hook and form two small balls of thread approximately 1/8 of inch apart to attach the eyes on to the hook securely. Step 3: Once the two thread balls are in place grab your eyes and secure them to the top of the hook shank using a figure 8 wrap to attach the eyes to the hook. I then apply a drop of zap a gap and wrap the thread parrallel to the hook shank and around the bottom of the eyes to secure the eyes on the top of the hook. Step 4: Once the eyes are secured to the hook wrap your thread so that it hangs just behind the eyes. Grab a red hackle and attach it to the hook shank. Wrap the hackle around the hook shank approximately 4 to 6 times and tie off. Trim the excess hackle fiber. This will imitate the flaring gills of the fleeing fish. Step 5: Next you will want to select to Partridge or Pheasant feathers and attach one on either side of the eyes. I like to strip off a small bit of the bottom of the feather and attach it to the hook just behind the eyes. You will want the feathers to stick out to the sides to imitate the large fins that sculpins have. Step 6: Measure your two colors of bunny fur to the length that you want them. Take the color you want on the bottom and slide the rabbit strip over the hook point so that you pierce the bunny strip. Slide the strip up on to the hook. You will want to have enough rabbit strip to pull it over the eyes and secure into place at the eye of the hook. Step 7: Now that the first strip is on the hook shank you will want to advance your thread to the eye of the hook and attach your second rabbit strip to the head of the fly. I like to trim the front of the rabbit strip in a point so that you can tie it in and save some space to make a clean head on the fly. Step 8: When the top strip of rabbit is attached to the hook pull the second color which you pierced with the hook to the eye of the hook and attach it to the hook with your thread. Step 9: Form a nice neat head on the fly and whip finish the head. Trim off your thread and apply a drop of head cement. Step 10: You will still have the two bunny strips dangling from the hook at this point and you will need to glue them together to make the finished fly. Step 11: Pull back the rabbit strip that you did not pierce with the hook and apply a bead of cement to the rabbit hide on both strips. If you are using a zap product you will probably see and smell a reaction of the glue to the tanning process used on the rabbit. That is why I prefer to use Pliobond which does not smoke, let off a hazardous vapor and it is more pliable. Glue the two strips together and you have a finished fly. Notes: There are many different variations to this "Jackson Hole One Fly Competition" winner. The fly was developed by Scott Sanchez who is a well know tier who used to reside in Livingston Montana. This fly changed the rules for the one fly competition after taking the title two years in a row. There is now a size limit on the flies that are used for the one fly competition. I have most of my success dead drifting this pattern rather than stripping it. There are days however that the fish will chase it down and eat it. This version of the fly differs from the original pattern but it has the same basic component that makes the fly a double bunny. Good luck fishing this great sculpin imitiation. |
