Just thought I'd show you a couple of my shrimp patterns, I'm keen to have a go with in and around a few rock marks I have had success at last year. I figure shrimp patterns will work for most fish, but I have tied these mostly with Wrasse in mind, but again I won't complain if anything else takes them.
The Pink one
I've tied the pink ones on a size 6 salmon single, using pink glowbrite floss. The feelers are tied on the bend of the hook, with a pink coloured angel hair, so as to give a more natural shape to the shrimp. the main body is simply pink fritz, and a shell back overlay, with veniard chain link, painted black for the eyes. I wound the pink globrite, back up the shank over the shell back to give a segmented look to the body, and finished it off with the same pink angel hair for the tail or beard.
The Purple One
The same again technique wise, materials slightly different, due to the fact I had no purple fritz, the hooks are slightly bigger Aberdeen size 2's. The feelers are just strands of purple twinkle, the thread is a purple globrite. The main body is a mixture of pink and purple litebrite, with a purple cock hackle wound from the eye to the bend. Again the shell back over the top with the globrite rib, and finished with the twinkle at the beard, or the shrimps tail.
I do have another slightly more natural colour tied using a very light coral and peach material, which looks the part. The hook shapes are probably not ideal, I would want to tie these on giant size buzzer hooks if I could get them, but size 8's are their limit. Another alternative might be to consider smaller circle type hooks, a size 2 might be ideal, I reckon this would give you a more realistic shape to the shrimp, but ultimately that's probably more pleasing to the human eye, and will not matter a jot to the fish, if you get the swimming action right.
Can't wait to get using these, partially as I have high hopes, and because I have just took delivery of a new 9# 9ft travel rod, and hopefully my new Greys GX300 reel arrives tomorrow.