Materials:

Hook: Standard length hook (Mustad 34007, Tiemo 811S)
base/tail: 2 ˝” – 3” long neck hackle
body: reverse tied buck tail*
tail: saddle hackle: extend 3” beyond neck hackle
flash: optional
belly: small, sparse buck tail*
wing: small, sparse buck tail*
Belly flash: light color angel hair, GSS, wing & flash, or similar
Wing flash: contrasting color of angel hair, GSS, wing & flash
Cement: Dave’s flexament
Eyes: jungle cock, (optional)
* It’s a good idea to use buck tail from the base of the tail and allow it to splay as you tighten your thread wraps since the intention is to build bulk without adding weight weight - hollow fleye style.

Tying Instructions

Note: The material colors in the demo were picked arbitrarily byDavid. This is the same pattern tied on a Tiemco SP 600 using white hackle, white bucktail, pearl wing & flash and herring colored Gartside secret stuff (GSS).

Beginner’s Level I: Introduction to Basic Fly Tying Techniques and  Materials

This class is designed for people who have never tied a fly before. The objective will be to emphasize repetition and simplicity as a foundation for learning new patterns. Basic skills of identifying hooks, identifying thread, identifying tools, identifying the most common materials and simply applying thread to the hook with a handful of different material types will be taught.

The Crease Shrimp is a pattern designed by Joe Blados, from the series of patterns called Crease Flies. Joe designed these flies more than a decade ago, while experimenting with different types of foam. Finally settling on sheet foam, called Live Body, Joe was to create one of the most important additions to the arsenal of saltwater fly fishers. Fish this fly with a floating or sinking line, in a dead drift and POW, ZAP, KAPLOOEY, OK! maybe not kaplooey. Fish fear this fly, so try one out.

 

The Sea Rabbit series of flies is a combination of different tiers' styles of tying on one hook! It combines a hy-ty back with a flat wing style double rabbit tail and a bead or cone head to get the fly down. It can also be tied as an intermediate fly by eliminating the cone and replacing it with a set of bead chain eyes. Color combinations for the fly are endless. Tie it all black and it’s an eel. For schoolies, try chartreuse and tan or all chartreuse or all tan. The two colors come from pieces of rabbit zonker fur tied on opposite sides of the hook, thus the two color possibilities.

Because the two pieces of fur are tied at the head on opposite sides of the hook it leaves room for a top wing of peacock sword or a hy-ty of flash material or both. Fish this fly and other bunny flies all spring and summer right through to the fall. I’ve caught blues, stripers, fluke, weaks and yes even false albacore find it irresistible.