SHRUGG

SHRUGG

Hook : Daiichi 1130 # 14 - 18

Thread : Uni-Thread 8/0 Gray

Body : Lead Wire .010

Under Rib : Glow Bright Neon Magenta Floss No.1.

Shell Back : Scud Back Clear

Rib : Fine Gold Wire

Legs : Rabbit Atron Blend Pink Shrimp

Fly Tier: Lawson Devery

Tying Instruction :

1) Wind the thread well round the bend of the hook and by applying lead in wire or strip form a shrimp like shape.
2) Tie in the floss and wire ribs. Also tie in at this point the clear scud back about ź inch wide .
3) Tease out the wool to a carded or dubbing like consistency and spin on fully over the body.
4) Wrap the Neon underib up to give 6 or so segments.
5) Firmly pull up the scud back material to lay tightly over the back and extend half way down the sides of the body, trap at head.
6) Wrap the gold wire underib immediately on top of the neon underib so that some of the bright thread shows either side of the gold wire.
7) Finish off with a tight whip finish and pick out the dubbing to form shrimp legs down whole of the body.

Note :

Fish similar to Czech rolling nymph. Fished close to or on the bottom. No more than two rod lengths, three at most. Cast upstream and lift off as it goes below you. Best using a indicator.

ABOUT THE FLY TIER

E-mail : LawsonD@aol.com

Address :
7 St. Christopher Avenue
Fareham, Hampshire,
PO16 7BY
UK

I started fishing when I was about 6 with my uncle George who was a great (covert) extractor of Salmon from the River Tay, he never took any more than the family needed and tended only to remove fish from stretches of the river owned by the English.

I started tying flies a few years later to fish for trout on a wee river that runs through St Andrews and it was there I started to appreciate the delight of the upstream dry fly.

I am now very lucky to live now in Hampshire in Southern England and if we ever get a summer this year I will be out on the local lakes and chalkstreams trying once again to get them to rise. I am a member of out local Flydressers Guild and help out with a bit of the instruction. I guide on local rivers

when I get a chance to and when I can get back up to Scotland for the silver tourists.

My daughter lives in Vancouver, Washington State so when we visit I try to get away and get few a days on the Fall or Silver Creek. I floated a couple of the Cascade Lakes last summer and had a great time thanks mainly to the local fly fishers who made me most welcome with tips and tales. Got my first steelhead on the Deschutes also last year, mainly due to an excellent guide who put me right on top of the fish.