Sanchez’s Double Bunny

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Scott Sanchez’s Double Bunny streamer.

Double Bunny | www.johnkreft.com

Sanchez states he first thought about this fly in 1988 on a trip to Belize. His inspiration for the fly were two other flies they were using, a Kiwi Muddler and a FisHair Cuda Fly. He wondered what might happen “if I put together the pulsating action of rabbit fur and the undulation motion of a ‘cuda fly?”

Back home in Jackson, WY he saw large trout chasing smaller ones and his thought about a “super barracuda” came to mind. He sat down at the vise and the first Double Bunny was created.

It was an effective fly and won the Jackson Hole One-Fly contest for three straight years in the early 1990s.

Scott ties many variations of the fly in 3 – 5″ versions using many colors. I’m sure it still works today!

Enjoy…go fish, stay safe!

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