Rabbit Fly – Gold

Fly: Doug Jeffries, Photograph: Hans Weilenmann

Hook: Mustad 9671, sizes 10 - 8
Thread: Black, 6/0
Weight: 0.020 lead wire, mid-shank, 8 – 12 turns
Rib: Medium gold tinsel or wire
Tail: Red soft hackle or marabou
Body: Wool yarn or other long fiber dubbing, goldenrod color, tease out bottom of body to achieve a minnow shape to the body
Wing: Natural rabbit strip, tied Zonker style, short tail

We fished this fly and the Rabbit Fly – Red at night in Great Lake with a very slow retrieve. Basically we used a hand twist figure eight at about 5 – 6 twists per minute. The takes would simply cause the fly to stop moving until we set the hook.

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