By Erick Carpenter
To the uninitiated, it’s forgivable to look at two similar looking flies and wonder what the difference is. After all it’s just a hook, some thread and various materials tied to it. What is it that makes one different from the other?
Which is why when you look back on our past columns, you might wonder if the Bunny Fly isn’t perhaps considered redundant.
At the very core, fly tying is about how the materials interact with the water. Using rabbit fur for a streamer pattern means you’ve got a material which you can tie with longer strips that will move with the water.
On a slow August night with a lazy tide, it’s the stuff of a fish’s imagination. I guarantee you that more fish have been caught on a Bunny Fly on nights by fishermen wondering if they weren’t better served by waiting until the new moon than any other fly.
Use dumbbell eyes to add extra weight, a little bucktail to give it some bulk and buoyancy, and get creative with feathers and flashabou. Tie them for everything from smallmouths to bonito, and let the pulsing of the water work the fly like a bait fish.
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