I've tried a ton of colors and while I carry some in Sculpin patterns and in Chartreuse, they've always ended up being "just in case" because White has worked well every time.
I tie mine generally on a number 6 streamer hook like so:
1. 6 to 10 wraps of .15 lead wire on the middle of the shank.
2. Form the body with Red or Pink yarn stopping just shy of the hook bend and about 2 hook-eye lengths behind the eye.
3. Slide on a body of Pearl tubing, brand of your choice.
4. Tie down body at bend of hook shank, fraying enough of the end to have fragments sticking out past the bend about the length of the hook gap.
5. Tie down at head.
6. Take a Zonker strip about 25%/50% longer than the hook and impale it on the BELLY side of the hook (the same side as where the point is) with that 25%/50% hanging off the back as the tail. No need to tie down.
7. Tie in a piece of Grizzly Marabou at the "neck" and wrap once or twice, tie off.
8. Pull your Zonker strip up the belly side of the hook and tie off at the head.
9. Hit your head thread wraps with super glue, Zap a Gap or whichever glue you like.
Now...if you want a head to which you can add stick on or drawn on eyes, just start with a heavy thread like 3/0 or something so that when you finish wrapping at the end you can build it big enough to take the eyes. There's a lot of debate about if eyes are needed, I personally add them to my Zonkers every single time, so I just make a big thread head (which isn't hard with 3/0 and wrapping over yarn and rabbit!) and glue them on.
Yes, the tail section will come away from the body a bit, but this isn't meant to be a pretty fly, and it WILL still catch fish. With that short tail it won't wrap around the hook often and the fluid motion of the rabbit carries all the way down the strip into the tail anyway.
Why put the Zonker strip on the hook-point side? Because this helps it ride point up and lessens snags. I can confidently cast this into weeds and that pays off.
Why the Red yarn and Pearl body? The final result looks like a minnow flushed with excitement.
I thought I'd posted pictures of this somewhere but can't find 'em. I'll try to get some on here later this week.
Scratch that, I found 'em. Look about 6 posts down in this thread:
http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=2284&hl=luvinbluegills