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Articulated Prawn Pink
Name | Articulated Prawn Pink |
Category | Salmon/Steelhead |
Hook | Mustad #36890 tied with a Talon tube fly trailing hook |
Thread | Fire Orange 6/0 |
Tail | Orange bucktail with a few strands of orange crystal flash and pearlescent flashabou |
Body | From back, 2 wound claret pheasant rump feathers followed by a thick body of large pink cactus chenille. Large mylar tubing (pearlescent) used as shellback |
Eyes | Seed beads on 30 lb monofilament |
Throat Hackle | Two claret pheasant rump feathers - pulled down in a "beard" style |
Articulated Prawn Pink was tied by Contributing Fly Tyer, Stuart Anderson, owner and operator of Adipos Flytying and The Canadian Tube Fly Company.
You can read about Stuart and see many more of his fine tube flies, as well as other creations, by visiting The Flies of Stuart Anderson.
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