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[Navigator]

Okay, here it is. Pink and White Bunny Jigleech.

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Some might say this is cheating. This is an untested fly - got the idea from an article by Lenox Dick and Tom Wood in the December-January 2003 issue of Salmon, Trout Steelheader.

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Pink and White Bunny Jigleech.

Hook: 1/0 short shank jig hook, heavy
Weight: 035 lead wrapped
Tail: White Bunny Strip
Body: Fluorescent pink kyrstal chenile - medium.
Wing: White Bunny Strip
Eyes: Medium dumbbells - silver
Head: Fluorescent pink kyrstal chenile - medium
Thread: Pink, heavy monocord

Dead drift. Use a #4 corky as strike indicator, floating line. Try a glo-bug on a dropper as a trailing fly.

Please let me know if you have success with this.

[ 02-06-2004, 07:18 PM: Message edited by: Navigator ]

[Chromaflage]

Saawweeet!! graemlins/applause.gif I'd try 'em!

[lilnorthfork]

Those look like some slippers Greenbutt had on at the last Crooked River Rendevouz. :laugh:
Nice work Nav. - can't wait to get it wet. lnf

[Grantspastor]

Navigator....I like the look of that fly! If you ever fish the Alaska Peninsula for big Rainbows, take some of those along. I think they would be deadly

[Navigator]

Thanks everyone. I only fished this fly once - for an hour or so on Eagle Creek in March last year under ideal (higher, steelhead green) conditions. No luck.

But, hey that is winter steelheading. I plan to give it another try on a south coast river in mid-February. Will post results.

[TillamookChinook]

Look good to me.
Dancing under a bobber, oops, I mean a strike indicator, those should be killers.

TC