Crawl Daddy Crayfish

In this video we have the skillled flyfisher and flytyer Jake Villwock owner of the shop Relentless Flyfishing to demonstrate one of his favorite “must-have” patterns from his flybox. The Crawl Daddy Crayfish is a beautiful crayfish patterns for smallmouth bass but it also works excellent as a imitation for mantis shrimp for ex. redfish. This little fly has a lot of movement due to the articulated construction and the combination of a heavy head-part and a more floating backpart with a small amount of foam, that balances this fly perfectly and really can get the atttention from the smallmouth bass.

Back half (Head end of the Crayfish)
Hook: NS122 Light Stinger # 2
Antennae’s: Sili legs Green Pumpkin with red flakes
Hot Spot: EP Terentrial Brush Hot Orange
Claws: Pine Squirrel, claw separation - 3 mm brown fly foam
Eyes: Easy Shrimp Eyes Brown
Body: EP Critter Brush Sculpin color
Shellback: Rabbit Zonker barred olive – reverse tied
Legs: Sili legs hot tip orange and olive Olive & Blue/Olive

Front Half (Tail end of the Crayfish)
Shank: 20 mm 60-degree Spawn Jig Shank
Bead: Spawn Olive Tungsten Football Bead 6 mm
Body: EP Critter Brush in Sculpin color
Shellback: Rabbit Zonker barred olive
Legs: Sili legs Chartreuse & Olive
Front hackle: Pine Squirrel

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