olive shrimp

[flyman]

A few times when i caught bass they have been ram full of little olive shrimps,
Tied this 1 on a double hook and caught quite a few bass on it.

Flyman

[paul p]

Nice fly

[GAZJB]

nice tying very neat and life like. did you reverse this pattern so the hook bend and barb imatate a claw?

[JustMark]

I think it will take me a while to get to that standard. Nice fly

[flyman]

Originally Posted by GAZJB

nice tying very neat and life like. did you reverse this pattern so the hook bend and barb imatate a claw?

No not reallydidnt really notice until u mentioned it,
most of my bass fishing is in the dark, first few i tied the other way round
to much material over the eye to mess about in the dark.

[JustMark]

What did you use for the eye stalks? LOL, that's the first question, I have many more.

[flyman]

Eyes- thick mono melted down with lighter,
feeler,s- partridge hackle,
skin- part of clear plastic bag cut in a strip,
body - olive fritz with a dark olive hackle parmed over it,
rib- nylon pulled tight to give the segmented look.
To finish couple of coats of sally hansens hard as nails.

Thanks for the comments,

Flyman

[flyman]

Eyes- thick mono melted down with lighter,
feeler,s- partridge hackle,
skin- part of clear plastic bag cut in a strip,
body - olive fritz with a dark olive hackle parmed over it,
rib- nylon pulled tight to give the segmented look.
To finish couple of coats of sally hansens hard as nails.

Thanks for the comments,

Flyman

[speycaster]

thats a great shrimp mate one of th better ones i have seen here is one of mine for the salt with afew others ive knocked up billy p

[JustMark]

How do you get the shapes like the top left eel patterns Speycaster?