Very nice, like the simplicity and profile of the orange version, not over-done with too much pelt as many commercial ones are.

I really don't know how I come up with that way of tying in rabbit strips     Probably from tying nymph wing cases.    Probably been done somewhere by somebody already.    Would be surprised if it hasn't.

Never really liked the old fashioned way of tying in rabbit strips.    Most are to long and wrap.

Rainbow

The Zonker is the NZ Rabbit lure/ fly that got HI checked by the Americans.    I followed this fly right from its very beginning and remember it as a fur strip wing tied down near the bend.   It had a Mylar tube body and incorporated some sort to lead keel. ( http://globalflyfisher.com/tiebetter/zonkers/#mango) It certainly was not ribbed along the body tube like all the NZ streamer feather wings and our rabbits which is known as Matuka style by the Americans.    No mention anywhere that this style originated here.   We tied Wolly worms with a tail, which was reinvented as the Wooly Bugger.

My flies do not have a tied in tail all the hair is part of the strip. It is the way it is initially tied in that creates a continuous hair comb.     I only tie flies that catch fish not fishermen.    As I said elsewhere I used to sit and watch at Keith Drapers s
upstairs shop how they tied the great Taupo flies by the hundreds/dozens.

Rainbow
       

Herb, a favour if you would..

Lucky bugger to still have jungle cock. A bunch of years back, burglars flogged my tying kit, in which were a couple of capes of jungle cock, packets of partridge tails and grouse tails, all sorts of good stuff..., but gone. *******.
Those are really smart looking flies, that orange one looks really really smart. I bet they will be death on a line to any trout still swimming.

I would love to get my mitts on some JC. If you have any you want to sell Uncle or if any one knows someone that does, I would appreciate the details.
Cheers
Andy

Sho_gun try these guys.