Bunny Buster

Bunny Buster recipe

About this fly

This pattern is my variation on the larger slump buster fly, tyed smaller and on a jig hook, to be tight line nymphed or fished like a streamer. It can be tyed in many colors to imitate leeches, sculpins, crayfish, or baitfish. This particular color is egg sucking brown leech. I have a lot of success with barred olive zonker,sculpin tan, and white.   Start by placing your bead on the hook. invert your hook in the vise or rotate your vise if it is rotary, the rest of this fly will be tyed upside down. Next cut your rabbit zonker strip for the tail so that is is twice the length of the hook shank. Pierce the zonker strip at the halfway point so that the hide side is facing up, that way when the fly is inverted in the jig position, the strip will be hide down / hair up.+ secure the zonker at the rear of the hook shank with thread, and fold the front half of the zonker back and out of the way. create a dubbing loop of ice dubbing or what ever dubbing you decide, twist it up, and wrap it forward to about a bead length behind the bead. brush it out for a nice buggy look. fold your rabbit zonker over the dubbing body and secure it with thread. tye in a pair of rubber legs to act as pectoral fins if you desire to imitate a sculpin, cut them about 2/3 the lenfth of the hook shank. insert a strip of rabbit zonker into a dubbing clip and cut it from the hide, you want 1-1.5 inches worth of hair, basically a full dubbbing clip. create a dubbing loop and insert the hair and spin it i

What the Bunny Buster imitates

• Streamer / baitfish

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