Fly Fishing Quotes and Thoughts
Rosenbauer's Snowshoe Rabbit Emerger
Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for 35 plus years and was tying commercially by age 14. He is currently with Orvis, where he is marketing director for Orvis Rod & Tackle . He has written many fly fishing books, including The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Reading Trout Streams, Casting Illusions, Fly-Fishing in America, Approach and Presentation, Trout Foods and Their Imitations, Nymphing Techniques, Leaders, Knots, and Tippets, The Orvis Guide to Dry-Fly Techniques, and The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide, which won a 2001 National Outdoor Book Award. He's been published in Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Fly Fisherman, Sporting Classics, Fly Rod & Reel, Audubon, and others.
This is an excellent pattern that accounts for quite a few fish in the net each year. It's durable and pretty easy to tie too. Tom spends many days each year fishing the Delaware System and fully understands what it takes to catch these trout. Buy Rosenbauer's Snowshoe Rabbit Emerger or tie your own from the recipe below.
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Fly Pattern Recipe
Name: Rosenbauer's BWO Snowshoe Rabbit Emerger
Sizes: 14, 16, 18, 20
Hook Type: Curved nymph/shrimp
Thread: Light orange
Tail: Shuck of brown Antron yarn equal to gape, tied halfway down bend. Shuck must be scored first with flat side of scissors or dubbing needle to give it a ragged look.
Body: ½ Dark olive, ½ Dark brown rabbit fur
Throat: Short CDC fibers equal to hook gape
Wing: Bunch of snowshoe rabbit's foot guard hairs from the middle of the foot. Equal to hook gape in length
Head: Dubbed from dark hares mask dubbing
You can tie this fly in various body colors and wing colors. Besides the one above, some of my other favorites are sulphur body and white wing, sulphur body and medium to light dun wing, Isonychia body and dark dun wing, and pinkish gray body with a dark dun wing.