Category Archives: Saltwater

From Flymen Fishing Company:
“The original Gotcha shrimp fly pattern is a staple in flats fishing fly boxes. This next-generation Gotcha variation adds some new elements to help this classic pattern fish even better.”

“By adding the Fish-Skull Shrimp & Cray Tail, the Gummy Gotcha fly gets to the bottom super quick to grab the attention of cruising bonefish and permit so you can land that fish of a lifetime. Layering several types of flash and adding Chewee Skin helps give the Gummy Gotcha fly the translucent look that you see in natural shrimp.”

Materials list:

Hook: Kona Universal Strong Streamer (USS) hook, size 1/0
Tail: Fish-Skull Shrimp & Cray Tail, silver, size medium
Mouth: Fish-Skull Faux Bucktail, white – Polar Flash Opal – Lateral Scale
Eyes: Easy DIY Plastic Bead Eyes (see video to learn how to build these)
Body: UV Chewee Skin – Flashabou
Wing: Fish-Skull Faux Bucktail, white – Polar Flash – Lateral Scale – Craft Fur

Brought to us by Flymen Fishing Co.
From Captain Chris Siess: Redfish are widely known for their propensity to eat a wide variety of lures and flies. Through years of guiding, I’m finding the more I fish for them, the more likely I am to use a natural-colored fly that looks “shrimpy.” Most of the time I’m fishing clear water or pressured fish and they wont always respond to a fly that looks like it’s dressed for a music festival. Recently, I developed a pattern that has proven to be successful, is natural looking, and can be fished in the mid to lower sections of the water column.

The Pheasant Drum Bugger is simple and extremely effective. A tail of marabou and few strands of crystal flash. A collar of ringneck pheasant, four legs to each side, Shrimp eyes, and then multiple more ringneck pheasant feathers make up the entire body. It is difficult to get more than three wraps of “hackle” out of a ringneck pheasant feather, but the variety of feathers on a ringneck skin and the gorgeous variation they provide more than makes up for it. I’ll use seven or eight feathers per fly, tied on a size two saltwater hook.

tied by Mathias Ibsen
Brought to you by Ahrex Hooks!
“The grand-old-man in saltwater-flyfishing and -tying Bob Veverka created the famous pattern The Mantis Shrimp. The fly has proven its ability to imitate shrimps and to “fool” saltwater-fish in big numbers – and it is a must-have in every bonefishers fly-box. In this video we have teamed up once again with Mathias “Krølle” Ibsen who ties his version of the all-time-classic, an easy-to-tie fly Mathias has caught a big number of nice bonefish on.”

Materials list:
Hook: Ahrex Streamer SA220 #4
Thread: Tan UTC
Eyes: Gold Bead Chaiin and black Easy Shrimp Eyes
Tail: Tan Craft Fur
Legs: Silicone Micro Legs Amber Gold Flake
Body: SLF Saltwater Sand