Donna's Delight (Pink park shrimp)

[ballingall512]

I came up with this the other day when tying up a few park shrimps.

I thought to myself, I have wasted most peoples great patterns by turning them pink, so why not do the same to Ross's park shrimp ;D

Only kidding.

I thought the combination of the parkies great profile and movement would work well with a pink- ish colour scheme.
My wife loved the look of it hence the name


Hook:Salar silver size 5
Thread Utc 70 white.
tail. Yellow runner with yellow angel hair
Magenta runner with electric pink angel hair
Yellow runner with electric uv yellow angel hair.
Tag oval silver size 14
Rear body pink flashabou mixed with uv bonefish pink lite brite
Front body silver lite brite
rib pearl mylar size 12
Cheeks jc
Head hackles yellow badger with magenta badgre over.
Head utc 70 red varnished 3x with clear.

here is a half tied one showing the body colours



here is the finished article







Sorry Ross but you know it had to get the pink treatment sooner or later


Hope you like it.

[macd]

Jan 21, 2010 19:53:16 GMT ballingall512 said:

I came up with this the other day when tying up a few park shrimps.

I thought to myself, I have wasted most peoples great patterns by turning them pink, so why not do the same to Ross's park shrimp ;D

Only kidding.

I thought the combination of the parkies great profile and movement would work well with a pink- ish colour scheme.
My wife loved the look of it hence the name


Hook:Salar silver size 5
Thread Utc 70 white.
tail. Yellow runner with yellow angel hair
Magenta runner with electric pink angel hair
Yellow runner with electric uv yellow angel hair.
Tag oval silver size 14
Rear body pink flashabou mixed with uv bonefish pink lite brite
Front body silver lite brite
rib pearl mylar size 12
Cheeks jc
Head hackles yellow badger with magenta badgre over.
Head utc 70 red varnished 3x with clear.

here is a half tied one showing the body colours



here is the finished article







Sorry Ross but you know it had to get the pink treatment sooner or later


Hope you like it.

I guess it was inevtable ;D

i like it, the colours remind me of fruit salad chews.

I like it dave, flytying is all about messing around with patterns, its how things move forward. Nice one Dave

[macd]

one gripe.

puttin badger over badger is a waste of good badger- totally masks the dark section of the first one.

[salmonshrimp]

Jan 21, 2010 20:23:19 GMT macd said:

one gripe.

puttin badger over badger is a waste of good badger- totally masks the dark section of the first one.

Hi R

Would you have the badger on top or underneath

Oooh forgot to say very nice fly pink is good....

[ballingall512]

Jan 21, 2010 20:23:19 GMT macd said:

one gripe.

puttin badger over badger is a waste of good badger- totally masks the dark section of the first one.

Aye fair point Ross.

I'd normally use yellow cock hackle but the ones I had in the box were rubbish, hence using the badger .

(I will leave you some testers with martin )

[faughanpurple]

Nice dave

first thing i thought when i saw it was is it a fly or a sweetie..

Ross nailed it a Fruit salad Chew.. My fav too ;D

[ballingall512]

let's hope salmon like fruit salad chews then ;D

[macd]

Jan 21, 2010 20:30:39 GMT salmonshrimp said:

Jan 21, 2010 20:23:19 GMT macd said:

one gripe.

puttin badger over badger is a waste of good badger- totally masks the dark section of the first one.

Hi R

Would you have the badger on top or underneath

Oooh forgot to say very nice fly pink is good....

im gonna guess......on top ;D

[macd]

Jan 22, 2010 10:34:15 GMT ballingall512 said:

let's hope salmon like fruit salad chews then ;D

No doubt

[salmonshrimp]

Jan 22, 2010 13:32:13 GMT macd said:

Jan 21, 2010 20:30:39 GMT salmonshrimp said:

Hi R

Would you have the badger on top or underneath

Oooh forgot to say very nice fly pink is good....

im gonna guess......on top ;D

That would be the norm R I'm sure it would work underneath too for a different effect in the water especially if the top hackle was sparse tied.

Nice flee can't get litebright or angel hair here in the sticks so can't try it

[macd]

Jan 23, 2010 11:43:40 GMT salmonshrimp said:

Jan 22, 2010 13:32:13 GMT macd said:

im gonna guess......on top ;D

That would be the norm R I'm sure it would work underneath too for a different effect in the water especially if the top hackle was sparse tied.

Nice flee can't get litebright or angel hair here in the sticks so can't try it

i see where you are coming from Lawrence.

try here for angel hair

www.grampianfishing.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=36&products_id=878

[ballingall512]

I get all my angel hair/ lite brite form here.

Every colour under the sun and a few more to boot ;D

The UV colours at the bottom of the list are out of this world, and the electric colours are very vibrant.

www.docsflybox.com/sunshop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=686

very well priced too from what I can remember.

[salmonshrimp]

Thanks for the links guys

Ross what is the original dressing for the Park Shrimp, can't seem to find anywhere....