This bonefish fly has an interesting history.  It is actually a combination of ideas that were introduced to me by two different tiers; David Blair and Terry Johnson.  Terry makes a palmered rabbit hair fly with splayed feathers out the back that he calls the 10X10. Named that because on one of Terry’s trips to Cayo Coco it caught 10 good bones by 10 in the morning. David suggested using the Enrico Shrimp brush instead of the palmered rabbit hair to achieve the same type of fly. 

On my November 2007  Cuba trip we stayed aboard the Coral Blanco.  On the nights with less travel time we would finish dinner and sit around the table watching fishing dvds and tying flies before heading to bed.   One day I had a hard time getting the bones to eat. Our guide Rolando - “Rollie” - looked in my fly box and I didn’t need to speak fluent spanish to figure out he didn’t really like any of my flies all that much.  He said “rojo! rojo! red! red!”  and pointed at hooks to indicate  a red butt.  That night the bucanero was born. Bucanero is one of the 2 cuban beer varieties I have seen.  It has a red label so… it only seemed appropriate.  

The next day and for the rest of the trip the bones were fooled by the bucanero during most encounters and many were tied aboard the coral blanco.  One bone taken by Jimmy weighed in at 4 kilos (approx 9lb) on the boga grip.

Hook:  Daiichi x point or 2546 #4

Thread: Flourescent pink or red flat waxed nylon by Danville

Dubbing: Shrimp pink ice dub or enrico shrimp dub in pink

Claws: 4 hen cape feathers

Body: Enrico shrimp brush in pink.

Eyes: bead chain or xsmall lead depending on depth of water to be fished.