The Mustad 37161 Hook - a slight return

[A. Fluker]

As I manged to catch at the weekend on a shrimp pattern I thought I'd try me luck and tye a couple of Plump Shrimps - although not so plump.

Plump Shrimp prototype

[richardw]

If you have a lead underbody on that fly Loopy you can make it sink faster and look even more lifelike by taking a pair of smooth jawed pliers and squeezing the fly flat in a vertical plane. It will cut through the water and get down quicker and it will be closer in shape to the real thing...

richard

[A. Fluker]

Thanks Richard I'll give that a try.

[roll cast]

Loopy id you wind the lead rond the hook on that fly?

[falsecast]

Nice one Loopy, what are the 'legs' ?

[A. Fluker]

Originally Posted by roll cast

Loopy id you wind the lead rond the hook on that fly?

Naw cut a small eliptical piece of lead and wrapped it under the hook hump (guess there is a proper name for this bit but it escapes me for the moment.

Hook is like this..........



Used wine bottle lead which is pretty soft may have to look at getting a thicker piece and follow RW's advice.

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Originally Posted by falsecast

Nice one Loopy, what are the 'legs' ?

Thanks for your question The legs are from part of a Grizzle hackle with the top half stripped to make sparce.

[maharg]

Loopy are those hooks also known as Old English bait hooks or something similar

ATB
Graham

[ACW]

Proper lead foil on the wine bottles ,let me loose in your Cellar , its been a fair while since there was good lead on most except real to end wines !
used to be easy to find on even pub glass wines !
BTW loved the woodstock clip on the blog !

[A. Fluker]

Originally Posted by maharg

Loopy are those hooks also known as Old English bait hooks or something similar

ATB
Graham

Aye, here is a link to the original thread if interested further

The Mustad 37161 Hook



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Originally Posted by ACW

BTW loved the woodstock clip on the blog !

Bit more to come!