How I spent my Memorial Day
Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 7:50 pm
While most of America was sucking down "beer" and eating hotdogs, I was sweating my face off learning a couple new flies. Let me back up.
As I was scrolling through Instagram one night, I came across this mono shrimp fly. But this fly wasn't like the ones I has seen before this was something else. So after liking the photo, following the user, and digging through all his other pictures, I realized he lived in Panama City. So I contacted him and asked him to teach me. I had to learn this fly. So he agreed and on Memorial Day Sunday I drove 2 hours and sit in a steaming hot shed for hours during the heat of the day and he showed me how to tie this beauty and also how to stack Deer Hair.
These two pics are actually one of the shrimp that he tied. There have been some modifications since this version. The dumbell weight has been replaced with lead wraps to give it a more realistic sink.
Waiting on the materials to come in the mail, then watch out reds, flounder, trout, catfish, sheepies, ladyfish, et.
What do you guys think.
As I was scrolling through Instagram one night, I came across this mono shrimp fly. But this fly wasn't like the ones I has seen before this was something else. So after liking the photo, following the user, and digging through all his other pictures, I realized he lived in Panama City. So I contacted him and asked him to teach me. I had to learn this fly. So he agreed and on Memorial Day Sunday I drove 2 hours and sit in a steaming hot shed for hours during the heat of the day and he showed me how to tie this beauty and also how to stack Deer Hair.
These two pics are actually one of the shrimp that he tied. There have been some modifications since this version. The dumbell weight has been replaced with lead wraps to give it a more realistic sink.
Waiting on the materials to come in the mail, then watch out reds, flounder, trout, catfish, sheepies, ladyfish, et.
What do you guys think.
