Well following on from Rainbow's recent post I thought I would share one of my new patterns that I have been getting some good results on this winter fishing the Tongariro.
Basically the pattern is tied on a shank with a 50lb power pro loop to which I attach a size 4 Daichi Intruder hook. The hook is attached by way of a triple loop... on the final loop i pull the bunny tail through which has the affect of leaving the hook in the tail (tip up) and free swinging.
The fly is tied with a 4.6mm tungsten bead in the body which is used as a wing to prop the ostrich plume (not to be confused with ostrich hearle) fibres up which are key to the flies movement.
The hook up to catch conversion rate on the fly so far is perfect. I tied this pattern in brown (barred) and natural however olive seems to be the favourite flavour on the Tongariro.