Uses for snowshoe rabbit foot hair?

[dawgvet 0]

Just bought my first pair of snowshoe rabbit feet and was wondering what all patterns I can use it for. I bought it to use as wings on emergers such as Rosenbauer's Rabbits Foot Emerger. I was interested in what all other patterns it was useful in.

Thanks

Jed

[H Dot Verseman 0]

easily the most well known is The Usual

 

snow show hare is amazing material. great for upright wings. good as a body material.

 

good as a tail- you can substitute it for cdc in a lot of cases. a good many dry flies use it.

[FrequentTyer 0]

It is a very versatile material. I think one of the most creative uses I have seen is Matt Grobert's fly Matt's Gnat:

[Rocco 0]

I really like it for Wulff series dry flies in the sizes 10 and under. Also, winging down wing, caddis flies... The shorter fluff makes great dubbing.

 

I have even seen some dyed examples recently in grey and rust/brown. Now where did put them?

 

Rocco

[mvendon 0]

Hi Jed,

 

Just useing Rosenbauer's Rabbits foot emerger as a base, you can cover a huge range of bugs for most of the season. Adjust hook sizes, sub different colored turkey biots for dubbed bodies. Snowshoe comes in quite a few colors, so you can adjust the wing color as well. Use different furs for in front of the wing too, depending on what you want to immitate and what size they are. I've been useing that pattern for more than ten years now. I usually tie them on TMC 2487 or 2488 hooks.

 

Another one that works well is Cannon's Bunny Dun.

 

Regards,

Mark

[Bruce Derington 0]

Here's another great example of a well known pattern "the Usual"

 

[dryfly purist 0]

Snowshoe rabbit as parachute hackle in a caddis

 

Snowshoe rabbit used as a loop wing in a caddis emerger (can also be used as a loop wing in a may fly emerger)

 

Snowshoe rabbit used as hackle/legs in a caddis swimming pupa

 

I think you can use Snowshoe rabbit in lots of other patterns as well :-)

 

Terje

[tctrout 0]

Just bought my first pair of snowshoe rabbit feet and was wondering what all patterns I can use it for. I bought it to use as wings on emergers such as Rosenbauer's Rabbits Foot Emerger. I was interested in what all other patterns it was useful in.

Thanks

Jed

 

Here are a couple of highly effective flies with snowshoe; enjoy!

 

 

TC

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