The Chevron Fruit Salad Shrimp

[laffingravy]

I was given a very bright pink dyed full pheasant skin by Chevron Hackles and asked to make something out of it. People of a certain age I hope will remember the sweets called Fruit Salads that as a kid I used to break my teeth on. The colours were very similar to this shrimp pink, orange and yellow.

Tying Materials



Hook: Partridge Salar Double silver size 9
Rear Thread: Primrose
Tag: Fine silver wire
Rear hackle (feelers): Pink dyed golden pheasant breast feather
Rear body: A doubled length of arc yellow No 10 Glo Brite Floss
Rib: Veniard extra fine Micro Glint
Mid hackle: Yellow dyed hen saddle
Front thread: Black
Front body: Black floss
Front rib: As rear
Front hackle: Bleached and dyed ginger hen hackle
Carapace: A large single jungle cock nail tied over the body and creased down its centre line.

[Sawyer]

Saw these on another forum over the weekend, very nice flies, sure to do the business. For me the Moc is always a dropper fly but I do not use the prescribed long shank, preferring a shorter hook. At that point I suppose mine is a similar profile to a Peter Ross.
Any chance of a black jack?

[laffingravy]

Black Jacks are wrong on so many levels. They taste like something out of cats rear end. They give you a black tongue and very curly teeth :>

[Sawyer]

Black Jacks are wrong on so many levels. They taste like something out of cats rear end. They give you a black tongue and very curly teeth :>

Like Marmite, you either love them or hate them!