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Matt Burke's Shrimpzoid, Page 2 |
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The regular chenille I tie a couple times along the top to bulk up the hump of the shell. Once back and then forward to the start of the wrap is good enough. Then wrap the chenille. Each segment is 1/3 of the shank to the start of the bend in the tail (photo 39, 40 & 41).
I give the Cactus chenille a little haircut on to before I flip the Scud back (photo 42).
Flip the shell back over the chenille and tie in. Then flip it forward again and tie in. This flip and tie in thing is done at every segment all the way to the curved tail tip (photo 43 & 44).
The middle segment is a repeat of the first segment (photo 45).
Now the last segment is the same except there is no hackle flash. It gets really tight tying around the bend of the tail. Wrap the chenille to just past the eye (photo 46).
Now to get the latex scud back to go over the eye, I just barely puncture a tiny hole about where the eye would come out when the scud back is stretched around the curve. Then take the eye out of the vise, the tiny hole will stretch far enough to allow the eye to go through the scud back material, then put the eye back into the vise and tie down the scud back (photo 47, 48 & 49).
To help with finishing the curved tail, I wrap the excess scud back around the material on the straight shank to keep it out of the way (photo 50).
Now I strip the fuzz off some orange schlappen and take a black permanent marker and make it a barred schlappen and tie that into the next segment (photo 51 & 52).
The next two segments I wrap chenille and the barred schlappen to the tip. I trim the schlappen fibers where the scud back will go (photo 53).
Now take the buck tail you saved and stacked and tie into the tip of the tail. Take the scud back and make your last shell segment and tie in where the buck tail is tied in. No flip back required, it will lay along the buck tail. Cut the scud back so that it will cover half of the back tail tip (photo 54).
Whip finish and cover with softex as it will just be an extension of the latex scud back . This is the final product (photo 55). You must fish this with a non-slip mono loop knot.
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