

More often he fishes them upstream - frequently with a two Slump Buster rig - and lets them drift and tumble back down. It has been fished by John, head–up against many other streamer and bugger variations, in the hands of very experienced anglers, and it has been the winning fly every single time! John has fished the Slump Buster cast tight to the banks, but it is fairly heavy and must be stripped briskly to avoid hanging–up. Instead of listing the positive attributes of this fly's construction, specifically what John employed and more importantly the materials - especially flash - he left out, let's define it another way.

Unlike zonker strips of rabbit with its very long hair, these skin strips were short–haired, nicely mottled, and thin skinned for easy wrapping. Years ago the Wapsi boys sent John Barr several colors of new "zonker–cut" Pine Squirrel strips.

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