USD Shrimp
This is a fairly complex shrimp pattern, a little difficult to tie, but also durable. It fishes upside down and is tied by Danish Mads Schmidt who has had great success with the fly.
My acquaintance with the Up Side Down Shrimp started more than three years ago. Back then it was one of its relatives named the Honey Shrimp that was at the end of my tippet. I fished with it for half a year and had many contacts with trout.
But there was a minor problem.
Between the hooked fish there was also quite a few trout that were not hooked despite properly rapid strikes and even strip strikes. The fly was obviously very attractive to the fish, but I thought the hook lacked a wider gape.
I decided to start to tie it in my own way with the adjustments that I wanted.
That was a hook that could reduce missed hookups and materials that worked well in the water. The last, but probably the most important issue, the placement of the weight, took me quite a few attempts to get right, but finally it was 100% right in the water - up side down.
The up side down shrimp you see here, is effective all year round. It is relatively difficult to tie, but very durable and will provide many catches. One of these flies from my box had ten trout on its conscience, and didn't look worn out in any way. Unfortunately, I lost it before, it was worn down.
The USD Shrimp is a very efficient shrimp imitation, which is at the end of my tippet 80% of the time I spend on the coast.
Step 1: hook and weight
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Step 2: dubbing
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Step 3: first legs
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Step 4: more legs
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Step 5: thorax
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Step 6: eyes
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Step 7: rib
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Step 8: antennae
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Step 9: thorn
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Step 10: dubbing
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Step 11: last legs
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Step 12: front body
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Step 13: tail
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Step 14: secon tail loop
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Step 15: secure legs
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Step 16: secure tail
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Step 17: dub body
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Step 18: comb body
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Step 19: shield
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Step 20: rib and trim
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Step 21: dots
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The USD brown shrimp
The USD brown shrimp is almost exactly what the browns, speckles, and rainbows eat in my area of Nova Scotia. I don't tie my own flies but would like to buy some of these. Can they be purchased?
Wow, totally blown a
Wow, totally blown away by the wet look, incredible realism, wheres the cocktail sauce? Definitely going to toss that at the searun browns, and salters ( searun brookies) this coming fall, in an olive or light olive it is a mirror image of the wee grass shrimp found on most New England flats, the striped bass will at times feed on them and nothing else for weeks it seems. Thank you for another incredible pattern. GFF rocks as always,sharp hooks,tight lines.
usd shrimp
Would like to purchase USD shrimp who or where could I purchase some ???