Pheasant Shrimp

Materials:

Thread: Veevus 150 D
Body: Deer Creek Mega Laser Dub, tobacco or Euro Seal & UV Dubbing, Cinamon
Eyes: Easy Shrimp Eyes
Hook: Gamakatsu F314 #8-4
Hook point: Deer Creek Mega Laser Dub, red. Optional a bit of crytal flash as tail.
Weight: Copper wire
Hackle: Pheasant or golden pheasant (recommended) body feathers

Instructions:

1.

Start by attaching some lead wire along the body, secure it with the thread and tie in the hook point of red dubbing.

2.

Take a feather, tie it in and turn it to form the back part of the fly.

3.

Tie in the Easy Shrimp Eyes.

4.

Prepare three feathers as shown for the body hackles.

5.

Tie in the copper wire as rib and the first of the prepared feathers.

6.

Make a dubbing body on the last 1/3 of the hook and turn the hackle.

7.

Now tie in a new feater and repeat step 6.

8.

Tie in the last feather, repeat step 6 and tie it in at the hook eye. Now tie the rib to secure all the feathers and body.

9.

Tie a knot or use some glue (Zap a Gap) to secure the thread and the fly is now finished. And as you can see on the picture below you can make many different color variations.

Fly Tyer: Daniela Misteli

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