While still sharing the oppinion: “Thats not the fly, its the driver!” during the last week i have started to load my fly boxes with different Seatrout flies. Season is too close, so boxes should be loaded. This year, in between all other patterns i have focused on saltwater shrimp tying -- quite a funny flies, that can produce a decent takes and strong memories. In general i think that classic Magnus and Grey frede patterns mimics also some invertebrates from baltic sea two, but however, sometimes we are fooling the fish (actually our selves) with precise imitations. Yes, this times it is shrimps. The main problem when tying the shrimps on a bit bigger hook is the size of the hackle you can get to properly palmer the flies body. Of course everyone likes these long shrimp legs -- hopefully seatrout too, but how can we tie such a fly? Easiest and one of the best ways is to use spey hackle feathers, but if there are not as much colors around as you would like to use. Or, maybe you need a bit softer material? Then -- BRUSH IT!

Yes, with the brushes you can use a lot of different materials for legs, starting from bucktail, marabou, synthetic stuff and even squirrel tail. I have added here few patterns from my tying bench, and i’m pretty confident that these should do the thing. Especially I like flies with softer materials like marabou, turkey and so on, but in case of opposite, i have prepared some bucktailed and squirrled shrimpo. Share and enjoy.

See you next week, video and pictures are below!