Post by easky on Nov 30, 2006 18:19:21 GMT
Thought I would tie up an Easky Gold Shrimp named after the Easky River in Co Sligo, Ireland (my favourite spate river 
). I have kept it a bit shorter than the last one as a lot of the techniques are the same - main difference being the tinsel body. Its a good fly for peaty spate rivers.
Materials
- ED Gold size 10 treble and red thread
Tag - gold oval tinsel
Tail - hot orange krystal hair, dyed orange GP breast feather
Back body - gold wire, holo gold tinsel
Middle Hackle - hot orange cock
Front body - same as back with addition of JC roofed
Front Hackle - dyed red silver badger
make base of thread on treble
tie in oval tinsel, wrap round treble and tie off
tie in orange krystal hair (two different lenghts)
select breast feather and tie in by tip
wrap round feather and tie off
this is the tail top profile
tie in gold wire, again I use this particularly on tinsel bodied flies as its more durable
tie in holographic gold tinsel, this tends to not be as strong as regular tinsel so you need to make sure to varnish it. I normally tie it in where you want the middle hackle to be.
I lay down a first coat of varnish on top of the thread. I then wrap the tinsel down to the tail. I then put on a thinner second coat of varnish on ie. over the first layer of tinsel. I then wrap the tinsel back up towards the eye of the hook - this creates a double layer of tinsel with a varnish sandwich. The final part is to wrap round the wire and tie it off. It is then important to leave the varnish to dry fully - as Graham does I would normally tie a batch of tails up and then finish the fronts later.
tie in the orange cock feather and double it
wind round the hackle and tie off
go through the same process of tying in the wire and the tinsel
again same process of creating the 'tinsel sandwich with wire on top'
tie in some JC and then a the red front hackle
wrap round the hackle and tie off, wip finish and varnish head
another angle of the finished fly to show the profile and how the holo gold shines through the hackles
). I have kept it a bit shorter than the last one as a lot of the techniques are the same - main difference being the tinsel body. Its a good fly for peaty spate rivers.Materials
- ED Gold size 10 treble and red thread
Tag - gold oval tinsel
Tail - hot orange krystal hair, dyed orange GP breast feather
Back body - gold wire, holo gold tinsel
Middle Hackle - hot orange cock
Front body - same as back with addition of JC roofed
Front Hackle - dyed red silver badger
make base of thread on treble
tie in oval tinsel, wrap round treble and tie off
tie in orange krystal hair (two different lenghts)
select breast feather and tie in by tip
wrap round feather and tie off
this is the tail top profile
tie in gold wire, again I use this particularly on tinsel bodied flies as its more durable
tie in holographic gold tinsel, this tends to not be as strong as regular tinsel so you need to make sure to varnish it. I normally tie it in where you want the middle hackle to be.
I lay down a first coat of varnish on top of the thread. I then wrap the tinsel down to the tail. I then put on a thinner second coat of varnish on ie. over the first layer of tinsel. I then wrap the tinsel back up towards the eye of the hook - this creates a double layer of tinsel with a varnish sandwich. The final part is to wrap round the wire and tie it off. It is then important to leave the varnish to dry fully - as Graham does I would normally tie a batch of tails up and then finish the fronts later.
tie in the orange cock feather and double it
wind round the hackle and tie off
go through the same process of tying in the wire and the tinsel
again same process of creating the 'tinsel sandwich with wire on top'
tie in some JC and then a the red front hackle
wrap round the hackle and tie off, wip finish and varnish head
another angle of the finished fly to show the profile and how the holo gold shines through the hackles
