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Cannon's Bunny

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Tiemco 101 or standard dry fly, 14-22
  • Thread Dun (or to match hatch) 14/0

Materials

  • Tail Light dun Mayfly Tails or hackle fibers (3-4 fibers)
  • Abdomen Tying thread or gray goose biot (as needed)
  • Wing Dun snowshoe rabbit foot hair (1 small clump)
  • Thorax Natural beaver or gray Superfine dubbing (small amount)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread behind the eye and wrap a smooth base to the bend. Tie in three or four dun tailing fibers, split or straight, one shank length long.
  2. Build a slim abdomen with touching thread wraps (or wrap a goose biot for segmentation) up to the 60% mark.
  3. Cut a small clump of hair from a snowshoe rabbit's foot, keeping the underfur, and tie it in at the 60% mark as a single upright-to-forward wing clump. WHY snowshoe: the dense, crinkly foot hair traps air and floats all day without hackle, and it's easy to see.
  4. Post a few thread wraps at the wing base to stand it up.
  5. Dub a small thorax around and behind the wing so the fly sits flush in the film with its body low, like a dun stuck in the surface.
  6. Whip finish behind the eye and cement. Dress only the wing with powder floatant.

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