The Rabbit’s Foot Emerger is a pattern I’ve used for about 30 years and guides all over the country swear by it. It floats down in the film, but the rabbit’s foot wing is highly visible and highly mobile and suggests the impression of movement. I’ve updated it a bit with a Tactical Wide Gape Hook, and I now put the CDC alongside the wings as “outriggers” to keep the fly positioned in the surface film. The PMD/Sulfur version works for the many species of PMDs or Pale Evening Duns or Pale Wateries throughout the world. This hatch often produces the pickiest fish of the season and this subtle, low-floating fly will fool them when conventional dry flies get refusals.
Hook: Wide Gape Tactical, sizes 14-18
Thread: Yellow, 8/0
Shuck: Brown Antron nor Z-Lon
Body: Mix of 1/3 pale yellow, 1/3 orange, 1/3 olive Superfine synthetic dubbing
Wing: Snowshoe Rabbit, from heel or middle including guard hairs
Legs: Small bunch of natural CDC tied along both sides of wing to act like outriggers. Half the length of the wing
Head: Small amount of hare’s ear dubbing