Spirit River UV2 Rabbit Fur Strips

Whenever it comes to adding natural movement into your flies, Zonker Strips are one of your safest bets. Spirit River UV2 Rabbit Strips are soft, move in the water, and are available in a wide range of colors to allow you to match just about anything. Not only are the UV2 Rabbit Fur Strips bold in color, but they’re treated with Spirit River’s UV2 Dye Process, which is a double-dye dying process that displays UVF (ultraviolet fluorescence) and UVR (ultraviolet reflectance) wavelengths in order to stand out in the water. An easy material to use, you can turn to Spirit River’s UV2 Rabbit Strips whether you’re tying up crabs for a trip to Belize or massive pike flies to dredge up the monsters. 

Uses

UV2 Rabbit Fur Strips are very easy to work with and are a material that covers a very wide range of applications. Rabbit Strips are commonly used to craft streamer bodies and tails that flow and move seductively in the water, however, these strips can also be used to tie crayfish and crab claws, and the fibers can even be removed from the hide and dubbed directly onto your thread or worked into a dubbing loop. A material that moves like no other, Rabbit Strips are a great choice whenever you need a fly that’s just plain swimmy. 

Comparisons 

UV2 Rabbit Strips are a material that’s hard to find a comparable replacement for. While Rabbit or Zonker Strips are synonymous with one another, there isn’t quite another material that offers their exact level of movement or ease of use. One material that’s similar would be Wapsi’s Pine Squirrel Zonkers. These are strips of material that flow almost as well, but Pine Squirrel Zonker Strips tend to have smaller fiber lengths and the fibers can be a little stiffer than Rabbit Zonker Strips. While these materials are similar, if you’re looking to tie larger flies, Rabbit Zonker Strips are the way to go. 

Example Flies

A common material with a range of applications, UV2 Rabbit Fur Strips have a ton of uses, but a couple of the more popular flies tied with this material are:

• Double Bunny
• Zonker Minnow