Holy crap that Peterson shrimp looks amazing! I agree, that is the ticket for active fish, big ole' chunk. There arent enough shrimp patterns with mass like that. I am going to get busy on those, thanks for the inspiration!elnaco wrote:All these shrimp flies I've been seeing on here made me want to tie some up.
Smartt's Shrimp
Craft Fur Shrimp
Peterson Shrimp. Pretty excited about using this one on tailers. The rabbit hair has some really cool movement when the fly is sitting still
EP Shrimp
I saw some earlier discussions on hook riding up or down and if bead chain eyes are enough to make it ride hook point up or not. In my experience it just depends on the fly and the hook, but what you can do is get creative with how you trim your material. In the case of the EP shrimp above, I had to trim the material on the bottom of the fly down and leave more material in the hook gap to make it ride hook up the way I wanted it to. You can see with the Peterson shrimp that I bent the hook shank to ensure it rode hook up but I don't think that was necessary. The way it's tide the rabbit hair should act like a wing and make it ride with the hook up.
