Where’s the cocktail sauce…I’ll eat it.
OK. how’d you do it? Or is it classified information.
I agree w/hairwing, looks too good to fish, more better for eatin.
Hopefully you will do not of this fly for us as a FOTW.
Very cool!!!
Thanks, It’s just a basic take-off of my ‘juice-bug’ patterns, using vinyl cement, ice dub, and clear Jelly-rope from Spirit River, tying with clear mono. Darren MAcEachern posted a tutorial for me:
http://dailyflytyer.com/2010/07/juiced-up-buggs-don-ordes/
The shrimp is a little more advanced in materials control than the turotial sample, but it still uses the rope-dubbing technique to get the crystal ice dub compact and shaped properly with minimal time & effort. The finished fly is still soft and flexible and most of all- light. This makes it feel like a real mysys and therefore won’t be spit. I’ve tied and fished the ‘juice-bugs’ for decades, but this is my 1st attemp at an extended-body mysys. Not too bad for the 1st try I think. Still room for improvements, tho.
I used to use Swannundaze a long time ago for juice-bugs, bugs that looked like you could squish them and get bug-juice on you. It was replaced by Larva-Lace D-rib. Then around 1990 we found the Jelly-rope substitute, and it’s still around. I don’t wrap it too often. I prefer to stack it with vinyl and weave bodies with undercolors. The vinyl penetrates the Jelly rope and underbody and fuses the whole fly as a one-piece transpatent entity, letting the hilites through. That’s why tying with mono is so important. Colored thread or wire ribbing is OK with some applications and patterns, but just when it’s required.
Wow that is just awesome!
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Don that shrimp is fantastic. It looks like you used CCG or Bug Bond on it. Wow.
I really like this shrimp…well done sir!
Excellent use of materials. Just a super looking fly. I’d like to give it the full eight thumbs up award. 8T
Sure would like to see a step by step.
Jeffro,
This type of pattern is right up your ally eh?
Don, Very nice tie! Very realistic, looks like it came right out of an aquarium. I was in many swaps with Darrin E. on another 'board and still have many of his flies. Is that his “Daily Fly Paper Blog” site?
Holy Shnikies! That’s a nice pattern!
did you just make that word up?? :D:D
LOL…Nope. That would be Chris Farley, in Tommy Boy:^))
That is a great looking Tye, Wow!!
Duck,
Check out Darren’s ‘Juice-bug’ tutorial. http://dailyflytyer.com/2010/07/juiced-up-buggs-don-ordes/ It’s not much different than the tutorial.
I?m working on different adaptations on this soft, flexible, transparent theme, so I tried clear large diameter surgical tubing (3/4")- 1st photo, for a saltwater version with a heavy hook and pink internals. It?s about the same size- 1 ?? long.
Then I did one with an egg sack- 2nd photo.
The 3rd photo is a small version about 3/4" long on a #16 scud hook, Using some small clear Swannundaze that I have left over from a bygone era.
My root beer Jelly-rope showed up today, so next will be crawfish patterns.
Don, those are fantastic! Can’t wait to see your crawdad ideas.
Don,
The juice-bug doesn’t have an extended body. Could you give us more detail on how you make the extended body. I’ve been trying to come up with a way to make a translucent damsel fly nymph body…for that matter perhaps the adult too.
Mr. Duckster,
Just shorten a juice-bug body and let the top Jelly-rope extend from the back of the hook.
DonO