Thread Tan (Charlie Craven's original is a shade darker) 8/0 Uni
Materials
Natural fur dubbing, mostly rabbit Natural tan/hare (A two-inch noodle for the body, plus a pinch for the thorax)
Snowshoe rabbit foot hair (from the inside of the split toes) Natural snowshoe hare s foot hair (One small clump, underfur cleaned out)
Deer hair Natural deer hair (One small clump, cleaned and stacked)
How to tie it
Start the tan thread behind the eye and run it back to the bend of the hook.
Spin a dubbing noodle a couple of inches long from natural rabbit fur and wrap a slim, even abdomen forward over about two-thirds of the shank. Aim for even, not lumpy; the fly has no tapered profile.
Split a snowshoe rabbit foot and cut a small clump of hair from the inside of the toes. Clean out as much underfur as you can and even the tips in a stacker (it stacks poorly, so this is mostly to keep the bundle under control).
Measure the snowshoe underwing so the tips extend just past the bend, transfer it to your material hand, and lock it on top of the shank with a few firm wraps. Lift the butts and cut them off at an angle.
Hold the snowshoe bundle tight so it cannot roll around the hook, then tie a cleaned and stacked clump of deer hair in at the same tie-in point as an overwing, with the tips reaching almost to the end of the snowshoe hair.
Use two loose wraps and pull tight, then come underneath, lift part of the bundle and add wraps working toward the eye. Cut the deer hair butts off at an angle and bind the clipped ends down smooth with thread.
Touch a small amount of the same dubbing onto the thread and wrap a short thorax over the clipped butts to tidy the front of the fly.
Finish with a whip finish, or a few half hitches from a half-hitch tool if the eye is crowded.