[How To] Make Rabbit Zonker Strips
This video by Alaska Fly Fish is a follow-up to our post on how to make a flesh fly for steelhead fishing. If you recall, a salmon flesh fly can be made with a single material – Rabbit Zonker strips. How to Make Zonker Strips If you would like make your own Rabbit Zonker strips here’s what you’ll need: One Rabbit Hide One pack double-edged razor blades Two bolts and nuts Washers Phone with 911 on speed dial Then watch the video – it’s pretty self explanatory and pretty cool. (Although I think will engineer a little safety guard for [...]
Categories: Fly Tying Tags: Alaska Fly Fish, Fly Fishing How-To, Zonker, zonker strips
3 Tips How to Simplify Fly Fishing
This week’s Fly Fishing Tip is brought to us by RiverBum.com and Jake Ricks of Utah Fly Guides. My wife has the term “simplify” in somewhat ornate creative vinyl letters stuck to a mirror over the dresser in our bedroom. I think she means something like we should simplify our lives. Or maybe it just looked “cute” and wise in whatever crafty location she purchased it. I like it fine but look at it a little differently. Knowing by hard experience that the shortest route to a fish is a straight line and that the most correct solution to matching [...]
Categories: Tips & Tactics Tags: Fly Fishing How-To, fly fishing tips, Jake Ricks, RiverBum.com
