Here is SBS for wool head pike streamer I’ve posted earlier. It is kind of new type of pike streamers for me. It should be hard to cast, but also will make lots of noise underwater because of bulky wool head. For these streamers I’ve used short-shank-big-gap carp hooks (they are sharp as hell… poor fingers [...]
Bunny strip (zonker) streamers are good lifelike flies, but they are hell to cast. Fur soaks the water and streamer becomes heavy and dangerous projectile. There is one way out of this situation – I’ve read about it in old Fly Tyer (Summer 2007) magazine under “The Leather Tail” title. It is a bass pattern but works great for trout and sea-trout fishing – imitating various ‘leechie’ creatures.
The main idea is to lighten the tail by cutting off all hair, leaving just leather strip. Article author (Jay “Fishy” Fullum) gives brilliant idea – replace rabbit (bunny) strip with black pigskin. Rabbit fur is not a problem for me (have whole black dyed rabbit skin) so I’ve tied this streamer with shaved rabbit strip (fur gone for making other flies and mixing some dubbing).
So here it is – the recipe. Actually it’s more tying style not the recipe:
Hook: any streamer or salmon hook you prefer;
Weight: dumbbell eyes or (and) some lead [I used bead-chain eyes + lead];
Tail: small bunch of bucktail (any color to match) and bunny or pigskin strip tied above;
Body: mohair yarn [pict] (can be replaced with any matching dubbing);
Head: artificial fur dubbed in dubbing loop.
Tying steps:
mono line loop and bucktail prevents long rabbit strip from tangling around the hook
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May 27th, 2010 at %I:%M %p
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