Fly Tying Tips - Rabbit Strips
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
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I'm just getting into tying and producing tying content - your channel has been a great resource. Thank you for all the hard work!
Thanks for watching! Let me know if I can help.
I have to say, I have learned so much from your channel than any other fly tying channel. Thanks for amazing teaching
So cool to hear! Thanks for watching!
Luved the thing u did with ur mouth when u pulled the hot bobbin through the hook eye LOL
Bryan love the channel! For a beginner like myself you really make it very simple to understand most because how easy you explain your tips. Appreciate the great content from upstate N.Y.
Been using a bucktail underwing to support the bunny strip to reduce fouling (and as a bit of a weed-deflector), works ok but I think I will try the resin-on-the-hide trick. Thanks Brian!
Resin is so easy, probably the best tip I will ever give on this channel....you can probably unsubscribe now. 😉
That tip to bulk up the head is money! Thanks.
Good stuff!
Once again you crushed it!!!! For fire I swiped my wifes kitchen micro torch and things really get hot fast. I recently went through my old streamer box and was horrified at what was in there... by comparison your double bunny looked like a work of art.
I almost bought one of the torches that look like a 9mm pistol just for this video......
Great vid. Thanks for the info and tips. Just started tying. The first pickerel I caught was on a rabbit strip type pattern. Made me an instant believer in rabbit strip patterns.
Rabbit is so good.....can get heavy, but so good.
I have so many different zonkers and cross cuts, micro, magnum, long, short, solid & barred & layered colors, etc.etc..and I still buy more almost every weekly fly shop visit.🤪 I’ve used the hot bodkin trick many times on crowded heads..but never knew the stretch trick to remove “wonkyness”! 👍. Thanks for all your tips and help Brian!👌 And I really love your first Double double! 🙂 Glad you still have it, and thanks for sharing it. Have a great weekend. Hope you get to go fishing! Best wishes 🎣
I can't believe I still have it......plan on making a video of fishing it and another super old streamer that I have.
Great as always. Thanks
Thanks again!
Cool video 👍
Thanks for watching!
Brian, I don't know if anyone else has said this yet, but one tip I find helps when cutting tails to length is I tie in the whole strip from the eye back so I have what I want to cover the shank, then I measure back my tail length and cut with a razor blade on the hide side (being careful not to go into the fur) and this method I find a bit simpler than parting the hair then holding and trying to scissor the hide. Hope that helps.
Okay that hot bodkin trick is fire! (sorry, had to. plus it really is a great tip)
I see what you did there. #win
Hey Brian, I'm thinking you used some pretty heavy mono for the connections between the front and back hook on that double-double bunny. I sold the house and should be buying a motor home right around the first of the year so I guess there's no time like next spring to introduce my wife to the Ozarks, one of my favorite places in the world. Keep the good stuff coming.
I actually glued the heavy mono between the 2 strips that were then glued together.....it will swim like a Twix bar.
so done that lol great content
Thanks again, sir. Great video packed with useful information. I am a bit curious though. Did your double double bunny catch you many fish
Never really fished it that hard.....I started tying bucktail flies around the same time and found that they were a lot easier to fish.
Awesome video as always Brian. I love using rabbit strips, and I use a ton of them as well as squirrel zonkers. Im curious what your thoughts are on the debate about cutting the hide to a point on the strip tail versus leaving it cut straight? I have a buddy who swears they swim better with a point cut into the hide. I haven't noticed much difference. Do you have a preference?
There is merit there, for sure.....I usually only taper the SUPER wide parts of the hide.
So, have you tried an EWG worm hook (Decoy Dreamhook 15 is my preferred hook), and treating rabbit zonkers like a soft plastic bait. Tie the zonker in behind the eye, lay it lengthwise and figure out where to pierce the skin to lay flat, and there you have "the strip teez". Weedless, snagless, rides point up...been fishing, tying and perfecting this for a decade. Tight lines.
Emphasized that "magnum, regular," a lot. 😂
Jack Dennis has some of the old Scott Sanchez videos, showing how to use his fly. The double bunny fly. It was a Jackson Hole 'one fly' competition winner. Several times. And that is maybe. Why it generated. The interest around it. As a fly back then.
Fly fishing streamers with Scott Sanchez. Shows his techniques and tackle. For casting the double bunny. In quiet cold conditions. In early spring. And what he constantly refers to. Were the contemporary Alaska type, and saltwater 'big flies' that were around. At that specific time.
There were feather streamers. And Jack Dennis. Started putting rabbit strip. In place of rooster feathers. To make what he termed. His New Zealand style flies. At that time. Scott Sanchez though, came up with that double bunny fly. That may have been better. Than any of those early fly patterns.
In terms of the first streamer fly. From 2005. In design school for architecture. We find always. That our teachers (in design studio class), will always walk through that problem with us. Where they teach us. That there can be 'three' big ideas happening. At the same time. In the one concept. That are fighting. With each other.
That was the thing. With that 'first fly'. From 2005. It had a lot of big ideas. All struggling. To become dominant. Knocking sparks. Out of one another. Dragging it in opposing directions.
It's what we term in design. An under-resolved solution. Where the thing is. To 'un-pack' everything (like you would lay out the contents of your travel luggage, before finally packing). To become organized. And make a decision. What goes in and what comes out.
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"Just burn a hole in it" -BW. My new sticker!!
I am SUPER quotable......most of the time they are cheeky and useless though. 🙃
What do you consider small-medium size streamers?
I consider a small streamer somewhere around or under the 2" mark. Medium streamers are a loaded question as there are a ton of different factors involved.
Can you show us how to bar the rabbit strips.
Probably easier to just buy them:
www.feather-craft.com/1-4-olive-barred-rabbit-strips
You remind me of a guy leaning on the shovel. He can't work and talk at the same time. Talk while you are tying.
Still love all these videos, but I gotta say...
I can understand why you're so concerned with "wasted hair" when you cut your rabbit strip...