How To Tie: The Swimming Shrimp | A Perfect Search Bait
Imitates: shrimp, glass minnow/fry/small baitfish, leach, ambiguous/something tasty
Target species: tarpon, snook, redfish, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, peacock bass, rainbow trout, brown trout, seatrout
Where to fish: backcountry, intracoastal/inland bays and waterways, warmwater lakes/ponds/rivers/canals
Notes: This pattern is a great all-around search bait. I’d compare it to something like a paddle tail in the conventional world. Fish this pattern along mangroves, in potholes of grass flats, along channel edges, or even around docks with heavy current. The weight of this fly is easily adjustable when tied, simply by adding or subtracting a bead.
Materials from this video:
About the fly:
The weight of this fly is easily adjustable when tied, simply by adding or subtracting a bead. This pattern rides hook-point up and is very weedless without a weed guard, though one can be added for extra protection from grass. Personally, I love this fly for pothole fishing in Everglades National Park and for throwing it under heavy-current structures. The movement of the rabbit strip tail and collar along with the flash body really makes fish commit even when stripped slow.
Helpful tools/additional materials:
Cutting mono made easy:
Making the dubbing loop:
Holds the material nicely:
Keeps the rabbit in place on the dubbing loop:
