Hot red rabbit booby

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

1. Attatch the thread

2. Then take the bunch of flashabou and fasten it pointing backward.

3. Cut the tail about the same lenght as the hookshank

4. Cut the tail in taperad shape

5. Fasten the crystal hackle

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.

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  

8. Fasten the prepared strip in front of the body.

9. Cut of the strip in the front and i n the back att the end of the tail.

10. Take a red boobycylinder, 5-7 mm in diamater, and styling the ends with a sharp scissors

11. take the cylinder and make 3-4 turns of the thread around it in the middle of  the cylinder.

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.

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.