With the recent adventure in tube and zonkers I had to end up with this eventually: a white rabbit zonker from Wapsi with different hackle color. The material should flow really nice in the water, but I have no experience with something like this in a river. There will be a lot of testing this summer, that’s for sure!
Tied up some more of the micro zonker tubes that I did the other day. The pattern is great and fairly easy to do, the only thing I changed this time was to add JC to the sides of it.
In hand for scale:
I have had some patches of deer in different colors around for a long time, and with the recent adventure into salmon bombers on tube I had to tie up a few in different combinations!
Tail: Hareline Para Post Wing White
Body: Hareline Premium Deer, Genetic Cock Saddle Green Highlander, Whiting Bronze brown
I was browsing youtube today and I watched a couple of videos involving salmon taking bombers in the surface. So: since this blog is all about testing out new things I had to test this out. The first attempt below was on a Dairiki 899 #1/0 and the deer hair wasn’t all that good, but I tried again on a tube (to see how that works out), and the above fly was much better stacked when it came to the deer hair and the hackle was more even.
In smaller variants this will be great for trout in rivers where you need to attract a lot of attention, so, will tie up some in smalleer (#6/#8) to bring along this summer when troutseason is starting again.
Body: Arctic Fox Orange
Head: Ostrich herl, CDC Green
So: a vegetable, and with a lot of tube flies done the last weeks it had to be a carrot on a tube this week! The CDC might work in water, but it will be pushed out and back, so I’ll see how this one works later.
This weeks photo challenge: macro of a broccoli:
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