Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions demonstrates how to tie Tom Rosenbauer’s Lucky Rabbit’s Foot Emerger in this fly-tying video clip.
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What Will make it Lucky?
Properly it is created from a rabbit’s foot, right? Kidding apart, Tom Rosenbauer, famous writer and host of the Orvis Fly Fishing Guidebook Podcast, designed this pattern 20 many years back whilst a guidebook in Yellowstone National Park. To this working day, it’s still his go-to emerger sample.
In a current podcast exactly where Tom named his leading 12 dry flies that will catch fish “anywhere in the earth”, there was only one particular emerger on the record: Tom’s snowshoe-rabbit foot emerger. I’d say that qualifies this emerger sample as blessed.
What Helps make it Work?
Unquestionably, the snowshoe-rabbit foot fur has a large amount to do with the accomplishment of this sample. Snowshoe rabbit fur is just one particular fly-tying product with around-magical qualities. It’s rough, floats like a cork, and is just buggy in the water. I don’t know how else to explain it.
Subsequent is the non-precise mother nature of this sample. Quite a few explain it as a mayfly emerger pattern, but in speaking about it on his podcast, Tom theorizes that it will work similarly effectively to imitate an rising caddis or even a tiny grownup stonefly.
Mayfly, Caddis or Stonefly?
Tom’s idea is that if you notice an rising mayfly or caddis up near when making an attempt to escape from the area of the water, they look very comparable and share a few characteristics: an rising wing, a trailing shuck, and legs.
Tom’s emerger sample imitates all 3 of these properties with the Snowshoe rabbit (wing), Antron (shuck), and CDC (legs). All you need to do is change the pattern size and perhaps the colours a little bit and you can go over a broad selection of rising mayflies and caddisflies with this 1 pattern.
Tom’s rabbit-foot emerger may perhaps also depict a little grownup stonefly given that the sample rides quite low in the h2o, with just the Snowshoe rabbit wing driving on the h2o’s surface area, as Tim Flagler illustrated in the video.
I suppose nobody understands what a trout thinks, but one particular matter I know for certain is that this sample flat-out functions.
Rosenbauer’s Rabbit Foot Emerger Materials Listing
Hook: Dai-Riki 125 (or preferred curved emerger hook), measurement 14-20
Thread: UTC 70, Brown Olive
Shuck: Antron Dubbing, Chocolate Brown
Stomach: Rabbit-Fur Dubbing, Olive
Hackle: CDC, Dun
Wing: Snowshoe-Rabbit’s Foot Hair
Head: Rabbit Fur, Dark Olive
Delight in!
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