 FLY
OF THE MONTH
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Barry’s
Bunny Worm
By Barry Ord Clarke
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April
is soon upon us, and for sea trout fishermen there is only
one thing on their minds, bristle worms. There
are many patterns known to sea trout fishermen to imitate
the worm, but for many beginners to fly tying these
can be not only challenging, but also difficult patterns
to tie.
Tying
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Step 1
Cut a length of good quality rabbit zonker strip approximaitly
8 cm of hide (do not include the hair length ). This should
have good, long, dense fur
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Step 2
Attach the zonker strip in your vice with the cut end in
the jaws. Now trim the zonker strip as shown,
( this is best done with long-bladed scissors so you only have to make one even
cut ).
When you trim the zonker strip do so in such a way that
you achive a taper back towards the tail of the worm. The
cut should be about 6cm along the hide, this will leave 2cm of hide, and a tail of full length hair on the end of the
strip. |
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Step 3
Take the strip and measure how long you wish the tail
to be, this will be determined by the position where you
punch the hide with the hook point. Now you can
attatch the strip to the hook as shown. With the hide,
side on the under side of the hook shank.
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Step 4
Now place your hook in the vice, jaws up-side-down (USD) and attach the tail whith
good tight turns of tying thread.
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Step 5
Turn the hook the right way up in your vice and trim off the access hide.
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Step 6
Select a good strip of crosscut rabbit. The difference between zonker and crosscut
is that zonker strips are cut from the hide vertically, this is to say parallel
with the hair. Crosscut strips are cut horizontally from the hide, across the
direction of the hair. |
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Step 7
Trim your selected crosscut strip as shown.
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Step 8
Clean a small area from the crosscut strip so as not to have
too much bulk when you tie it in. Tie in at the butt of
the tail. |
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Step 9
Making sure that the hair from the strip pionts naturally
back towards the tail as you wind it, wind this on
in tight close turns.
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Step 10
When you have covered the whole hook shank, tie off the strip, but make sure that
you have enough space for the hour glass eyes, behind the hook eye. |
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Step 11
Trim off the excess strip and tie in your hour glass eyes. This
should be done with eight turns of the
tying thread. The hour glass eyes can be changed
for a bead head or cone head, but these should be placed
on the hook shank before you attatch the first zonker strip.
The weight of the eyes is important in this pattern so
that it has the correct swimming effect in the water.
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Step 12
Whip finish and cover the head and tying thread with a good amount of Varnish. Brush
the body of the fly with an old tooth brush, to open up the fibres in the hair,
and trim to shape if necessary. Then you have the finished worm. |
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