Hareline Olive Barred Rabbit Strips

What it is

Hareline Olive Barred Rabbit Strips are barred rabbit fur strips cut from Grade A rabbit hide. The hide stays soft and pliable on the hook, and the dense rabbit fur breathes and swims with a lifelike action when you strip or swing it. It’s also a durable strip for patterns that take a lot of grabs.

What to tie with it

Use these as zonker strips for wings and backs, or wrap them for full streamer bodies where you want movement without adding extra legs or flash. They’re a natural fit for leech patterns, baitfish profiles, and any rabbit-strip streamer where you’re crosscut-wrapping or laying a strip down the shank as a moving skin.

Flies and the fish they're for

Rabbit strips are at home in Double Bunny-style streamers like the Sanchez Double Bunny, which gets fished as a baitfish and leech imitation for bigger trout in rivers and stillwaters. The same zonker-style rabbit strip streamer approach also shows up in striper flies, where that dense fur and swimming action keeps working in moving tidal water and current. In the Northeast, this olive barred look is commonly fished as a juvenile perch-style baitfish profile, which is a natural match for big pickerel in places like Maine.