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Brush eyes
Premade eyes for shrimp, crab and damsel nymph patterns don't come cheap. I actually considered them so expensive that I never used them. Until I thought of hairbrushes.
By Martin Joergensen
The Long Shrimp
Read about hair brush eyes
Hook:
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Partridge GRS12 2-6
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Thread
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White 6/0 or Monocord
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Antennae:
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White bucktail and silver flash
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Shell:
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White bucktail and silver flash
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Eyes:
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Black from a hair brush
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Rib:
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Silver tinsel
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Body/legs:
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White arctic fox wool
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Tying instructions:
- Start by covering the hook shank with thread
- Take a small bunch of bucktail and tie in as antennae - approx. one hook length. Do not cover butts with thread and do not trim them!
- Tie in 2-3 silver faslh straws folded over with the folded part towards the rear of the hook reaching to the tip of the bucktail tips. Again do not use more than a few turns of thread and do not trim the butts.
- Clip the folded flash to open it
- Fold the butts of bucktail and flash rearwards over the antennae to keep out of the way while continueing
- Prepare two hair brush eyes by bending them slightly just under the 'pupil'
- Tie in the eyes side by site on top of the hook shank
- Cover the eye butts with tying thread
- Varnish
- Tie in ribbing pointing to the rear of the hook
- Dub the hook shank to a tapered shape using coarse arctic fox fur
- Fold the butts of bucktail and flash forwards over the body. Leave two straws of flash as longer antennae
- Tie down the butts just behind the hook eye
- Trim butts close to the hook eye
- Rib tightly over the dubbing and bucktail/flash 'shell'
- Trim ribbing
- Whip finish and varnish
- Tease out legs with a velcro teaser. Watch out for the 'shell'
- Trim the legs and long flash antennae if needed
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