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The Mysterious Evening Shrimp
Designed and Tied by Petru Dima

The Mysterious Evening Shrimp

Name The Mysterious Evening Shrimp
Category Atlantic Salmon/Steelhead
Hook Partridge Bartlett #2/0
TagSilver wire
TipFluorescent/green floss
TailGolden pheasant dyed black and peacock sword fathers
Body8 olive, 4 yellow and 4 fluorescent/green floss braided for the rear half. Between the sections a black cock hackle an over and under 3 peacock sword fathers like veiling. Front half 8 olive and 8 black floss braided. Over and under the front body half 5 peacock sword fathers like veiling.
Front HackleGreen and black cock
HeadBlack

Take a good look at this fly tied by Contributing Fly Tyer Petru Dima. He employs a revolutionary braiding technique that is asthetically pleasing and durable. Petru's Red & Green Hot Chilli Pepper Shrimp won the MUSTAD Scandinavian Open Fly tying Competition 2002, cat. 8 Open (which see). This fly, designed for Atlantic Salmon looks like it would also be a very effective fly for Steelhead. Petru's bio and more flies will be coming. See his notes below.

PETRU'S NOTES: What is new is the way I braid the silk. The technique of mixing different materials or colors in the body opens up new doors for the imagination. The body of the fly is not only more beautiful, but also stronger. The traditional way of using the silk means that just one fish can spoil half an hours work at the vice (sometimes more), as the silk unravels. With my technique, which means that the ends hold each other in place, the fly can easily be repaired with a scissors and some glue. The advantages are obvious and I know many flyfishers will appreciate it. They can now start tying beautiful floss bodies for their salmon flies again. Those who only tie their flies for fishing will no doubt wave it off and call my method nonsense.

For me, it is important that the flies I fish with are also beautiful. That is at least half the pleasure. The other half is the fishing itself and being on the river.

To see more of the flies of Petru Dima, see The Flies of Petru Dima.

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