Materials
Hook: TMC 811S - size 6 or 4
Thread: UTC Ultra 140 - fl. shell pink
Weight: Beadchain; medium - silver
Antennae: Krystal flash - black
Front legs: Sili-legs barred - pumpkin/green-orange-black flake
Eyes: EP crab/shrimp eyes; x-small – pearl black
Rib: Copper wire - medium
Body: UV2 dubbing enhancer – light blend
Shell: Mink zonker strip - natural brown
Back legs: Sili-legs barred - pumpkin/green-orange-black flake
Adhesive: Zap-A-Gap gel and Pieroway’s premium head cement

Step 1. Insert the hook in the vise and attach the thread, wrapping back two hook eye lengths.

Step 2. Place a drop of Zap-A-Gap gel on the thread wraps and then figure eight wrap the beadchain eyes to the top of the hook (This fly rides hook point up).

Step 3. Double over the thread a single strand of black krystal flash and then wrap back to the hook bend tying the krystal flash down as you wrap. Trim the two antennae to twice the hook shank length.

Step 4. Return wrap the thread to just behind the beadchain eyes. Double over the thread a single strand of sili-legs material. Wrap back to the hook bend tying the sili-legs material down as you wrap. Trim the two legs to hook shank length.

Step 5.Return wrap the thread to just behind the beadchain eyes. Position each eye stalk individually alongside the side of the hook shank and wrap back to the hook bend. Each eye ball should be situated at approximately half the length of the legs. Bend each eye stalk out 45 degrees from the hook shank.

Step 6. Tie in a 2.5 inch long piece of medium copper wire at the bend of the hook.

Step 7. Rotate the hook in the vice (hook point up) and tie in a 1 inch long piece of mink zonker strip at the bend of the hook. Position the strip so that when it is pulled over the body of the fly the hair will lie canted back towards the hook point. Place a drop of Zap-A-Gap gel on the thread wraps.

Step 8. Wrap a dubbing noodle on thread and dub a body forward to the 2/3 point of the hook shank.

Step 9. Double over the thread a single strand of sili-legs material. Wrap back over the “V” of the legs tying the sili-legs material down along the sides of the body as you wrap. Trim the two legs to 1 1/2 the hook shank length.

Step 10. Finish dubbing the body making sure to make figure eight wraps of dubbing between the beadchain eyes.

Step 11. Spiral wrap the copper wire up the body making sure to evenly space it. Tie off in front of the beadchain eyes.

Step 12. Using a dubbing brush pick out the body.

Step 13. Pull the mink zonker strip tight over the body and tie off in front of the beadchain eyes.

Your Mink Shrimp is now complete and you are ready to head out On The Water!