Materials List: Hook - Umpqua XS410 All Purpose Hook
Tail: UV Polar Chenille - Copper
Crazy legs - Watermelon Rind
Barred Crusher Legs Olive/Clear
Collar: EP Minnow Head Brush - Mottled Mullet
Weight: Medium Chicone's Stealth Chain - Olive Brown
Wing: Extra Select Craft Fur - Golden Olive
Weed guard: Mason Hard Mono - 25lb
Check out the video at the Tailwater Outfitters Youtube Channel
This fly works really well for a weedless, small shrimp. You can crawl it along the bottom, pop it out of the grass, or run it across a trough. It fishes well in many situations that can lead to coming tight on a redfish or a speckled trout.
Step 1: Start your thread and tie in your bead-chain eyes.
Step 2: wrap to the bend of the hook and tie in a 1.5" piece of UV Polar Chenille
Step 3: Palmer the chenille around the hook. Pull the flash back and make a couple wraps over it to get it all leading to the back of the fly. Tie in rubber legs on the bottom side of the hook. Trim to around the same length or a little longer than the flash.
Step 5: Tie in EP Minnow Head and palmer to the bead chain eyes.
Step 6: Brush out the Minnow Head and trim to a small profile with a razor or scissors.
Step 7: Tie in the Craft fur wing - about the same length as the flash.
Step 8: Add a weed guard and whip finish.
Step 9: Tie it on and throw the Redfish Gotcha in front of a redfish!
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