Shrimp Flies

[ScandinavianTyer 0]

Some Shrimp flies and the tying instruction:

 

 

Hook: Tiemco 811S size 4

 

weighted with 8-12 wraps of nontoxic wire in the front part

 

tying thread Grey or tan 6/0 Uni

 

1) Tie in a smal bunch of champagne polarfibre, can be substituted with teal or grizzly hacklefibre

 

2) Tie in some melted mono-eyes, couloured black with a permanent marker. Give the mono a little twist with a pair of plier so they stand out at an 45 degree angle from the hook shaft

 

3) Tie in 2 antennas made of stripped grizzle hackle stems

 

4) Tie in a grizzle marabou feather at the stem on top of the hook shank so it extends backwards (prepare the feather by removing the webby lower part of the fibres so it fits the hook shaft in length)

 

5) Tie in some fine mono for the rib at the underside of the hook shaft

 

6) Optional: tie in the tip of of grizzle marabou feather at the front to form the tail

 

7) use some tan dubbing with a few pearl lite brite fibres ( natural hare dubbing is fine) and dub the shaft, thickly at the rear and finer at the front.

 

8) fold the grizzle marabou feather forward, so it lies on the back of the fly and tie in at the front.

 

9) cut a 3 mm strip of clear flexibody/ or some sort of scudback, shaped to a point at the rear to form the spike between the eyes, and tapered to make it easier to tie in at the front.

 

10) tie in the flexibody at the front and place the rest on top of the fly(grizzle marabou feather)

 

11) Hold the tip of the flexibody at the rear and carefully rib the fly with the fine mono, making sure the grizzle marabou fibres are not trapped but stands out on both sides

 

12) secure the mono rib at the front (this is really important for the durability of the fly! secure the rib with 5-6 wraps and then tuck it backwards and secure with 5-6 wrappings before cutting the excess)

 

Brush the underside of the fly with a dubbing brush to tease out the dubbing fibres

 

finish the fly by applying some superglue to the tying thread and wrap the front. Do this 2 times and cut the thread.

 

Optional: colour the part behind the eyes and the antennas with olivegreen waterproof marker

[Redwings1 0]

GREAT looking shrimp!

[Joe Hard 0]

Those are great, I bet they would catch a lot of species of fish

[stinky 0]

Very nice shrimp pattern.

 

I love it. :headbang:

[pickin6ofem 0]

Sweet!!!

[Guest]

Only thing I can add to the compliments on the work is:

 

Cheat on the melted mono eyes. Go buy a hair styling brush and yank the manufactured bristles out and use those. Just had this thought (never tried yet seems viable) along with the hairbrush thing - the manufactured bristles have different colored ends so if you wanted to you could use red or who-knows-what. Seems like a cool idea as I think of it.

 

Again, well done and thanks for the pattern! :clapping:

[ChuckD 0]

Great looking shrimps. the redfish down here should love them