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Psychedelic Critter »

Hook: Mustad 34007 size 2 or 4.
Thread: Olive Ultra Thread 140
Tail: Copper Crystal Flash, select tan craft fur and burnt mono eyes
Egg Sac: Ice chenille large orange
Body: Estaz Grande Root Beer
Head: 1/8 eyes
Weed Guard: 20-pound hard mason mono

It’s basically a mangrove critter with one difference, the body is wrapped with Estaz Grande vice yarn.

Wrap hook shank with thread to just past the barb
Tie in flash twice the length of the hook
Then do two wraps with the Ice chenille large orange
Next add the burnt mono eyes
Now tie in the craft fur tail, length is twice the hook
Now bar the tail with a brown magic marker
Tie in the Estaz Grande.
Wrap thread forward and tie in the dumb bell eyes
Tie in the weed guard
Now palmer the estaz forward, stroking it as you wrap it to the dumb bell eyes
Tie off the estaz
Wrap thread forward and whip finish and head cement.
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Spawning Shrimp »

Hook: Mustad 34007 size 2 or 4.
Thread: Flat waxed nylon (color your choice)
Tail: Crystal Flash (color similar to wing), silli-legs (color your choice) and burnt mono eyes
Egg Sac: Ice chenille large orange
Body: Ice chenille or estaz (color your choice) - medium to large depends on how buggy you like your bugs
Wing: Palmered select craft fur (color your choice)
Head: 1/8 eyes (hook size dependent)
Weed Guard: 20-pound hard mason mono

My version of the EP spawning shrimp Noleflyfishers shrimp. Color is your choice for the fly, as well as hook size.

Wrap hook shank with thread to just past the barb
Tie in flash twice the length of the hook
Tie in Silli-legs 2/3’s the length of the flash
Tie burnt mono eyes.
Tie in large orange ice chenille egg sac, two or three wraps only.
An option is to wrap the whole body with the egg sac chenille, the white ones in the picture above are that way.
Tie in chenille for the body
Wrap thread forward and tie in eyes leaving space for weed guard.
Wrap the body chenille half the distance to the eyes and tie off.
Now form a dubbing loop 3-4 inches and fill with craft fur. I place the cut ends of the craft fur close to the dubbing loop, space the fur up and down the loop, then spin the dubbing loop. Once the loop is tight, the craft fur will be spun around the dubbing loop…take time to comb the hair out, give it a brush. Once you have it in order palmer it around the shank to the eyes, make sure you stroke the hair back as you palmer forward. Wrap thread around the loop and cut the excess dubbing loop off and wrap some more to secure it.
Tie in the weedguard
Whip finish
Head cement.
The craft fur wrapped around the body as you palmered it, comb out the hair, cut any wild hairs and you are done.

Enjoy…if you tie some up and catch something on it post it here, I’d love to see it
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Redfish Slider »

Redfish Slider
Hook: Mustad 34007 size 1 or 2.
Thread: Brown flat waxed nylon (140 denier).
Tail: Brown craft fur with a couple of strands of copper Flashabou or Krinkle Flash on each side.
Wing: Palmered neck saddles.
Head: Brown deer body hair, flared w/ bead chain eyes
Weed Guard: 12-pound test Mason

My version of the Borski Redfish Slider - Mine are a little more buggy than the original, but I like nothing better than a big Hors D’oeuvre, so does Mr. Redfish, Bon appetit :-D

Tie in the bead chain eyes before palmering the neck hackles.
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