MATERIALS LIST
- Hook - Mustad 3366 or any standard length ringed eye hook. Size 4.
- Weight - Optional.
- Thread - Black 6/0
- Eyes - Green Spirit River mono eyes.
- Tail - Brown or olive rabbit zonker strip.
- Body - Olive or varigated olive/black chenille.
- Legs - Bootbeer rooster hackle.
- Shell Back - Spirit River "Olive Body Stretch".
TYING INSTRUCTION
- Tie in thread and eyes at the head of the fly.
- Wrap the tying thread to hook's bend and tie in the tail then the shell back material.
- Tie in the body chenille and wrap forward 4 or 5 turns, secure with tying thread and trim the excess.
- Tie in the leg hackle and wrap 1 or 2 turns, secure with tying thread and trim the excess.
- Pull the shell back to the front of the leg hackle, secure with tying thread and trim the excess.
- Dub the area between the leg hackle and over/under/between the eyes. Whip finish and cement.
HISTORY AND ADDITIONAL NOTES FROM JEFF SCHROLL
This is a great Smallmouth bass fly!!! I like to fish The Bunny Wiggler around shallow weed beds early and late in the day. I am thinking simulation of a damsel fly or dragon fly nymph.
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