Gary Tanner Flies

Name	Curry's Red Shrimp
Category	Atlantic Salmon
Tag	Oval Silver Tinsel
Tail	Golden Pheasant red breast feather
Rear Body	Red floss or seal's fur (I tied the example above with seal. So much more lively than floss!)
Rear Rib	Oval Silver Tinsel
Rear Veils	Red hackle tips or similar (often tied, as I did, without veiling)
Center Hackle	Silver Badger
Front Body	Black floss or seal (again, I used seal)
Front Rib	Oval Silver Tinsel
Front Veils	Red hackle tips or similar (again, not often employed these days. We're cheap and lazy.)
Eyes	Jungle Cock
Head Hackle	Silver Badger
Head	Red

Curry's Red Shrimp was tied by contributing fly tyer Gary Tanner. See Gary's notes below about this fly and read more about it on his blog: The River's Course. See more of his flies on his contributor page, The Flies of Gary Tanner.

Gary's Notes: If you get seriously into Irish shrimp flies and would like to learn more about them than just the recipes to tie them, I strongly recommend Peter O'Reilly's Trout and Salmon Flies of Ireland (Merlin Unwin Books, 1995, with subsequent reprints). From it, I learned that the first Irish Shrimp pattern, Curry's Red Shrimp, was created by Pat Curry of Coleraine, Ireland. I'm not too sure the colors are right for the Miramichi, but it was fun to tie (and I'll find out about the "rightness" of the colors later this year).