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| Furry Foam Crab V2 |
Every year about this time in March and April… we have some friends who go fly fish in Maldives…. and then at these moment, I will be tying some salt water patterns.. for them to try and fish in Maldives.
Revisit my Furry Foam Crab pattern which I design back in 2008..
I realize it’s time to put in some improvement and to make it more durable… the natural biots legs and the pincer was easily bitten off by fishes during the fishing. and these legs and pincers are not ‘mobile’ enough or in another words… not enough ‘LIFE’ given to the pattern.
Now this new 2nd version of Furry foam crab have more mobility and the moving parts are more durable.
Material :
Hook – Gamakatsu SL12S or New O’shaughnessy size 6 or 4
Legs and Pincers – Ultra Chenille by Metz
Beaded comb post as eye
Furry foam as shell
Prism SLF dubbing as Fin
Roll lead as base
Step by step tying instruction:
Prepare the hook
Cut out the Furry foam to the shape
Tie down to the hook
Now take to Ultra chenille and tie a knob
Burn the end of the chenille to taper the edge as above
Tie in the pincer, take note; pull one of the chenille so both the chenille are different in length so that the pincer will bend.
Tie in 4 pairs of legs
Tie in the bead eye
Tie in the dubbing
Fold the foam over and tie down, whip finish
This is how it looks from the bottom
Now prepare a roll lead wire base
Glue down the base
Apply some UV resin
Cure the resin
Color the crab with permanent marker
Cheers and have fun tying
You can also create the pincer with Furry foam…
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