I use this almost exclusively for shallow pike, or fish it on a sinking line for deeper applications. The tail is Bestway Super Hair, the wing/body is crosscut rabbit strip. The Super Hair tail keeps the fly light for all day casting, and it takes a pounding from the toothy ones better than rabbit strips. Palmer the rabbit strip up the body, use 5 minute epoxy on the thread head, and throw in a mono weedguard for fishing weedy bays. Good color combos are black and yellow, chartreuse and white, red and white, and all chartreuse.