Hot red rabbit booby. A cross over fly betwen Zonker and Booby flies. The thin zonker tail givs the fly a nice movement and the hot red fluo colour makes the fly stand out in the water.
A superb pattern för cold and murky water.
Materiallist
Hook: Kamasan B160 strl 6 to 10
Thread: Red
Tail: About 10 strands pearl flashabou
Body: Fluo flame red medium crystal hackle. This is from Flyboxdirect.co.uk
Wing: Fluo red zonker strip. About 1,5 mm wide
Eyes: Red booby cylinder. 5-7 mm in diameter
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| 1. Attatch the thread |
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| 2. Then take the bunch of flashabou and fasten it pointing backward. |
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| 3. Cut the tail about the same lenght as the hookshank |
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| 4. Cut the tail in taperad shape |
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| 5. Fasten the crystal hackle |
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| 6. Wind the crystal hackle in tight turns towards the hook eye. Stop 3-4 mm before the hook eye. Fasten and cut of the remaning part. |
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7. Now its time to prepare the zonkerstrip. I prefer to use very smal zonkerstrip and they can´t be bought.
So, i take a normal zonkerstrip and cut it in halves along its length.
You do this with a realy sharp razor blade or surgical knife |
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| 8. Fasten the prepared strip in front of the body. |
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| 9. Cut of the strip in the front and i n the back att the end of the tail. |
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| 10. Take a red boobycylinder, 5-7 mm in diamater, and styling the ends with a sharp scissors |
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| 11. take the cylinder and make 3-4 turns of the thread around it in the middle of the cylinder. |
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| 12. Wind the thread around the hook until the cylinder reached the hook. Now you fix the cylinder with figure of eight turns crossover the cylinder. |
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| 13. Now you are ready with the fly after you have fasten the thread, cut it of and fixed the bobby eyes with a drop of superglue. |
