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Pink Shrimp

Shrimp · Bonefish · Redfish · Sea Trout · Snook · Permit · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard saltwater / bonefish hook, 2-6
  • Thread Pink 6/0

Materials

  • Bead-chain or dumbbell eyes Silver bead chain eyes medium (1 pair)
  • Bucktail or craft fur (tail/antennae) Pink bucktail (small clump)
  • Krystal Flash Pearl pink flash (few strands)
  • Estaz or SLF dubbing (body) Pink ice dub (1 strand / pinch)
  • Grizzly hackle (legs) Pink-dyed grizzly hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

  1. Start the thread a third of a shank back from the eye and lash the eyes on top with tight figure-8 wraps, then cement the wraps.
  2. Carry the thread to the bend and tie in a sparse pink bucktail clump plus a few strands of flash for the tail and antennae, one shank long.
  3. Tie in a pink hackle by the tip at the bend so it can palmer over the body as legs.
  4. Catch in the Estaz (or dub a rope) and wrap forward to just behind the eyes, building a slightly tapered shrimp body.
  5. Palmer the hackle forward through the body in 4-5 open turns, tie off and snip; stroke the fibers down so the fly rides hook-point up.
  6. Cross the thread in front of and behind the eyes, whip finish behind the eye and add head cement.

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