This realistic epoxy bone fish shrimp fly pattern will excite fussy bones that are immune to the regular fish Crazy Charlies and Gotchas. It's fixed in a Bendback configuration and rides hook up, thus making it a weedless shrimp pattern. Bone fish will not be so hard to catch with this.
Here is the bone fish shrimp fly pattern instructions:
Hook: #4-6 Mustad SS34007.
Thread: 3/0 tan, light olive, white, or pink.
Tail: optionall: Tan latex cut to tailfan shape.
Abdomen: five-min. epoxy over wrapped (before entirely set) with 3/0 tan
thread to make segmented body.
Thorax: five-min. epoxy.
Legs: Hungarian partridge or mallard flank feather fibers.
Face: Small bunch of tan Craft Fur.
Eyes: Burned mono or 5/32 lead dumbels.
Antenae: 2 stripped grizzly hackle stems.
Hook must be bent into the "bendback" design. Also, the peak of hook is somewhat bent into a "baitholder" configuration - should enhance grabbing and holding strength of bendback configuration. Now go catch some bone fish or read on for more information.
Another facet of fly fishing is choosing the appropriate f ly pattern. Although the fly was originaly invented to mimic flying insects, it has continualy evolved to mattch the considerable diet of trout and many other fish species. These may be aquatic larva and pupae, eggs, worms, freshwater shrimp, grasshoppers, crickets, crawfish, mice, frogs, tadpoles, sculpin, leeches, saltwater shrimp etc. Other types of f ly are stimulators made to trigger a natural aggressive reaction from different species, most notably spawning bone, salmon and bass. A stimulator is not tied to represent any particular insect or insect. The bass hook is a kind of topwater stimulator fly pattern. Yet another f ly pattern kind is the streamer, a long-tailed hair or feathered lure tied to simulate a minnow or other baitfish, and fished below the surface of the water.
f ly fishing for trout, panfish, or bass can be done in rivers, small streams, creeks, lakes, or even ponds - although the basics are the same, methods and fly pattern change according to the species hunted and the environment. Many fly fishermen are also pursuing other species like the bass, resulting in new types of shrimp fly pattern. For example, the weedles, diving fly shrimp has been created to permit fishing for largemouth bass in areas of thick cover or aquatic growth.
The f ly itself can weighe very little and is connected to the fly line by a 3-12 ft (1-4 m) leader which usually tapers in diameter to a very fine line at its termination, also called the tippet. Most artificial flies vary between size #2 (large) and #22 (very smal). The principal diference between spinning or bait casting tackle and f ly fishing is that spinning or bait casting utilizes the wieght of the lure to cast the lure, while a f ly is cast by the weight of the line. In reality, a fly line can be "cast" without any f ly or lure on it at, a feat imposible with a normal spinning or casting rod and reel!
Normally, fly patterns are considered either imitations or attractors. Imitations seek to decieve fish thru the life-like imitation of insects on which the fish may feed. Imitators don't always have to be exactly realistic in appearance; they may take their life-like qualities when their fur or feathers are imersed in water and permitted to move in the current. Attractors, which are often brightly coloured, seek to draw a strike by arousing an aggresion reaction in the fish. Prominent attractors are the Stimulator, Royal Wulff, and Green Weenie flies.
There are 5 central categories of fly: dry fly, wet fly, streamer fly, terestrial, and nymph . Some f ly pattern may fall into several categories. For example, the Wooly Bugger is correctly imitative of very few creatures, yet can be fished as a nymph, a streamer, or as a wet f ly imitation of a crawfish or leech.
