Flymph Challenge - Rabbits Foot Dubbing

[Roadkill]

Here is a #14 Hare's foot and Plover with Cream Snowshoe, cream thread, and gold twist.

[Ruard]

Before I did see your contributions I tied my LDO's. Funny that Mataura used the same hook and Roadkill the same hackle as I did.



Hook: B175 # 12
Thread: Pearsall's no 3
Body: dubbingbrush on clark block core well waxed Pearsall's no 19, Dubbing: blend of 50% olive snowshoe and 50% olive hare. I paint the snowshoe with a panton pen.
Hackle: golden plover stripped on one side.



Same fly except for the hook: Mustad 1575 # 11



These hooks have big eyes.



The B175 under water.

Greeting


Ruard

[letumgo]

Marvelous job guys. I love the variety. These patterns would cover a wide range of insects.

Ruard - great underwater photo. I love seeing the bubbles trapped by the fur. Neat perspective.

[tie2fish]

I am really liking everyone's rabbit flymphs; great imagination and superb results. I did notice a couple of comments about harvesting regular (cottontail) rabbit's feet and wonder if this material has the same translucence and hydrophobic properties as the snowshoe hare stuff. Anybody know for sure?

[novabass]

Some very nice flymphs posted here, nice job all!

[William Anderson]

Good lord, fellas. This is off to the races. I really need to get to the vise. Some really beautiful patterns.

Ruard...I love that you dunked them and turned the image right-side-up. the air bubbles are floating to the bottom. Always great to see these things wet. Nicely done.

w

[Mataura mayfly]

I did notice a couple of comments about harvesting regular (cottontail) rabbit's feet and wonder if this material has the same translucence and hydrophobic properties as the snowshoe hare stuff. Anybody know for sure?

Yes and no.
Not having direct access to your Elmer Fudd evaders, I can only compare the local stuff. Basically from what I can figure- your Jackrabbit= our Hare and your Cottontail=our Rabbit, pretty much one in the same by a different name.
The local Hares are more buff in the colouring, and straw to very pale faded off white underside of the feet.
The local Rabbit are similar- but with blue/gunmetal grey undertones that bleed through, so the underside is more varying shades of grey- becoming ever lighter toward the toes and tips.

Both share the crimp and unrulyness and hydrophobic properties.

[Roadkill]

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Bill,

Great fly!!
I need some of those feet to make "Purple Haze" emergers

[kacbo]

I use hare foot underfur as dubbing component. So, it' not rabbit, it common European hare's foot. And I discard long and coarse and guard hair, and use only middle and base layer of underfur as dubbing. Usually, I use hare's foot underfur as 1/3 of dubbing mix. Doing this for some years. There are some example, posted on this forum some time ago:

http://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3344 - Simple Film Fly




...and one more:
http://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2774 - Hare's Foot Hydro Flymph




Recepies are listed ind topics, linked above.

Used this way, (mixed as noted... and applied in dubbing loop) hare's foot underfur works excellent for flymphs, as for nymphs and just as good as dubbing for surface flies.

[Mataura mayfly]

Wow kacbo, they are a couple of beauties. That bottom one looks good enough to eat myself!