Rabbit Smelt
 Rabbit_Smelt trout fly, category New Zealand Classic Streamers |
Pattern:
| Hook: | Kamasan B830 |
| Thread: | white 3/0 monocord |
| Tail: | 12 grizzly hackle fibres, as long as the hook shank |
| Rib: | fine silver oval tinsel |
| Body: | pearl mylar tinsel |
| Wing: | 2.5 mm wide strip of dried, but untanned, rabbit pelt, with gray fur and light tan tips, tied in at the head, and then ribbed with the oval tinsel |
| Hackle: | 3 turns of soft, cree or honey grizzly rooster hackle, and wound back, wet fly style |
| Eyes: | painted on head with waterproof pen |
| Head: | black thread, whip-finished and superglued |