Slide a silver cone bead onto a size 6 2XL streamer hook and put eight or ten wraps of lead wire behind it, then push the wraps up inside the cone. These cones are hollow rather than solid, so the wire adds the weight and helps hold the cone in place.
Start 140 denier hot orange thread behind the cone, take a few wraps up over the lead, and run the thread back to the bend of the hook.
Tail: catch a hot orange 1/8 inch rabbit zonker strip in at the bend and leave it long — a monster tail is the look. Do not cut anything off; the rest of the strip becomes the body.
Lock the strip in hard with wraps in front of it, behind it, and up underneath it. None of these wraps will show once the body is wrapped over them, so use plenty; this is what the heavier thread is for.
Take the thread forward to just behind the cone, or slightly onto it, then wrap the zonker strip forward like a big piece of dubbing, treating the leather strip like floss with one wrap butted against the last — about four or five turns to reach the cone.
Take three wraps to secure, the last two tight, and snip the strip as close as you can get with heavy scissors or a knife; you are cutting leather.
Collar: cut a couple of inches off a strip of rubber Silly Legs — ten strands. Catch the bundle at its middle with two loose wraps and spin it around the shank the way you would spin deer hair, so you end up with a twenty-strand skirt.
Cut a little fur off the zonker strip, wax the thread and spin a loose two- to three-inch dubbing noodle. Pull the rubber legs back and take a few wraps of the noodle over their base to sweep them rearward.
Spin a thinner, tighter noodle and wrap it in tight turns behind the cone to bind down the loose dubbing and clean up the head.
Whip finish four or five turns behind the cone, either twice or with a drop of super glue on the thread.