Post by phishinincident on Apr 19, 2009 10:37:14 GMT -5
This fly is basically an enormous Double Bunny with some slight modifications, the Double Bunny was one of my favorite unarticulated flies so I wanted to add a little something extra to the fly, and also make it huge! I tied a few of there in AK with white and Chinchilla making about a 6” long Smolt fly, and it worked.
First, I somehow had a few hooks kicking around that had monstrous eyes, I do not know where they came from or what they’re used for, someone said a Trott line but I don’t know, and of course I’ve tied them all by now. Anyway lay down a heavy thread base as with any articulated fly.
You’ll then get your power pro or similar and estimate how long you want the fly to be, this fly has between where I cut the first hook off, (before the bend) and the bead/stinger hook i have 2 1/2 inches. The rear hook is an Owner cutting point egg hook in #1, extremely sharp and strong. I have the bead on the PP so it adds some color, keeps the rabbit off the hook and keeps some profile. So slide the bead on the PP and secure the PP to your shank. Also throw some weighted eyes on, there are Spirit River real-eyes in ¼”
Helps to have a rotary vise, flip the whole thing upside down and attach your white super-mag strip to the bottom (top when its upside down) Its good to have a little extra to cut off, as to not come short. Spin the fly back over and add copious amounts of flash, I have fell in love with Polar Flash, it pops at every angle, ive got some of that on the sides and a bit of green holographic on the top of the fly (which is tied in after the olive strip. You’ll then flip the fly right side up and attach your olive to the top of the fly. These rabbit strips are really wide, if you look around long enough you can fine a really wide “magnum” the Wapsi stuff is not wide enough, I cut the white myself, because I couldn’t find any wide enough. These strips are about 10mm's wide.
As with a regular double bunny this hasn’t taken very long to get this far, and the fly is prtty much done, I like a big fat thread head on my “DB’s” with lots of head cement whatever to somewhat varnish it. Take the fly from the vise and cut the first hook off before the bend.
Now you lay the fly flat getting all the flash out of the way get the power pro right over the white, right in the middle get some super glue on it and secure the olive to the PP and white. It takes time I guess to get the right amount of super glue figured out, you don’t want the fly to come apart and you don’t want too much glue so that he rabbit loses its dexterity “wiggle”
The big heavy eyes make the fly dive and pull back up when stripped and the rabbit follows behind. I know it will be hard to find hooks with eyes that big, im having a hard time doing so, but that big eye and a non-slip mono loop, talk about action…
First, I somehow had a few hooks kicking around that had monstrous eyes, I do not know where they came from or what they’re used for, someone said a Trott line but I don’t know, and of course I’ve tied them all by now. Anyway lay down a heavy thread base as with any articulated fly.
You’ll then get your power pro or similar and estimate how long you want the fly to be, this fly has between where I cut the first hook off, (before the bend) and the bead/stinger hook i have 2 1/2 inches. The rear hook is an Owner cutting point egg hook in #1, extremely sharp and strong. I have the bead on the PP so it adds some color, keeps the rabbit off the hook and keeps some profile. So slide the bead on the PP and secure the PP to your shank. Also throw some weighted eyes on, there are Spirit River real-eyes in ¼”
Helps to have a rotary vise, flip the whole thing upside down and attach your white super-mag strip to the bottom (top when its upside down) Its good to have a little extra to cut off, as to not come short. Spin the fly back over and add copious amounts of flash, I have fell in love with Polar Flash, it pops at every angle, ive got some of that on the sides and a bit of green holographic on the top of the fly (which is tied in after the olive strip. You’ll then flip the fly right side up and attach your olive to the top of the fly. These rabbit strips are really wide, if you look around long enough you can fine a really wide “magnum” the Wapsi stuff is not wide enough, I cut the white myself, because I couldn’t find any wide enough. These strips are about 10mm's wide.
As with a regular double bunny this hasn’t taken very long to get this far, and the fly is prtty much done, I like a big fat thread head on my “DB’s” with lots of head cement whatever to somewhat varnish it. Take the fly from the vise and cut the first hook off before the bend.
Now you lay the fly flat getting all the flash out of the way get the power pro right over the white, right in the middle get some super glue on it and secure the olive to the PP and white. It takes time I guess to get the right amount of super glue figured out, you don’t want the fly to come apart and you don’t want too much glue so that he rabbit loses its dexterity “wiggle”
The big heavy eyes make the fly dive and pull back up when stripped and the rabbit follows behind. I know it will be hard to find hooks with eyes that big, im having a hard time doing so, but that big eye and a non-slip mono loop, talk about action…
