The Orange and Gold Shrimp 1. Start the tying thread and wind it in touching turns to the back of the hook. I normally use black tying Occasionally someone asks is the fly most important or is presentation most important. The answer is that both must be right. One is not much good when spoiled by the other. This series is about effective fishing flies for salmon and grilse. One of the most essential Irish Shrimp patterns for summer grilse fishing is the Orange and Gold Shrimp. The orange and gold shrimp comes from Carnroe on the Bann and is a variant of the Bann Special shrimp. The Orange and Gold Shrimp is an extrememly effective fly and is perhaps the very best grilse fly on the Moy system and on the upper Blackwater. The rear body may be tied with flat mylar and a rib or large oval tinsel in touching turns. The large oval tinsel body is generally considered to make a better fishing fly. thread for this fly. 2. Put on three touching turns of oval gld tinsel as described in the tailing article It is an excellent fly for fresh grilse in clear water and an excellent peat stained water fly during dropping spates. 3. Select a suitable feather for the tail and tie in by the stalk. Irish Shrimp Tail proportions Preferred proportions are up to the individual. Measuring the reference set of tails I use on my Irish shrimp flies, measured from the point where the tail fibres leave the rear body to the tips of the tail fibres, the lengths are 14 E.D. treble - 21mm 12 E.D.Treble - 25mm 10 E.D.Treble - 30mm 8 E.D.Treble - 35mm 6 E.D.Treble - 44 mm Trebles are V.M.C. code 9613 Esmond Drury type trebles Standard Partridge Double Tail Lengths Std Partridge Double 10-22mm Std Partridge Double 8-28mm Std Partridge Double 6-32mm 4. Double and wind as described in the tailing article.
5. Fix the fe3ather fibres to the right place after winding. 9. Tie the tinsel in tight to the tail 6. Hold them back 10. Make some very tight touching turns of the 17 tinsel to form the rear body. 7. Bind them in securely with the tying thread. 11. Lacquer the body with some Rimmel 60 seconds nail polish 581 clear or some Sally Hanse hard as nails nail polish and allow to dry. 8. Select some 17 Veniards own tinsel and start fto unravel one end of it for tying in. 12. After the lacquer over the tinsel body has thoroughly dried then the middle hackle is tied in. It is doubled and wound using the edge of a scissors and finger position 1 and finger position 2 as described in the Ally s shrimp article.
13. I will wind the Chinese hackle about five turns. I start off with touching turns then move the last turns well forward if necesary to allow for varying fibre lengths and then will bind the thread back over the last turns and tight to the forst touching turns. This 16. Tie in a suitiable base section of genetic saddle badger hackle by the side that was nearest the tip end of the feather. also helps flare out the hackle fibres. 17. Double and wind using the edge of the sciccors and finger position 1 and finger position 2 14. Tie in the ribbing tinsel on the far top side of the front of the hook shank and the floss on the top near as described in the article on the Ally s shrimp. side 18. Form a head with the tying thread and whip finish 15. Wind the floss in slightly overlapping turns and tie in. Wind the ribbing tinsel tightly using about three turns and tie in. Snip off the waste ends of the floss and ribbing tinsel. 19. Varnish the head of the fly. Clear varnish first, then a coat of black varnish. Then another coat of clear varnish. Allow each coat to dry thoroughly before applying the neaxt coat.