HMG Shrimp

HMG (Hot Melting Glue) Shrimp

Hot melt glue is a material that I use for a variety of flies. 

This pattern i's a pattern that i have fished with for more than 15 years when i'm fishing for sea trout on the coast. 

It's the fly that I have most trust in when it comes to deliver strikes and to catch fish with. 

The fly is alsoe one of the most sturdily pattern becourse of the choise of material.

Stainless steel hook, melt glue body and a hackle which is anchored in the hot melt glue gives you a fly that  that resist both salt water and the smal but sharp teeth of a seatrout.

Material

Hook: Mustad streamer Signature Saltwater S74SZ Size 4 or 6

Thread:  Transparent nylon thread

Eye / Weight: Silver chaineyes

Tail: 10-12 Crystal Flash in desired color. This one I have used light pink to.

Underbody + thorax: 2/3 Same as the tail and the 1/3 in the front, orange luminous, glow in the dark, flashabou.

Overbody:  Hot melt glue

Body hackle:  Light brown (sand) grizzle hackle

1. Attach the thread just behind the hookeye

2. Then attach a pair of chaineys 

3. Take 10-12 straw of crystal flash and wind them tight to the hook so that the will cover the body
Cut them so that there will be a tail about 1/3 of  the length of the hook shank. 

4. Prepare the hackle by pulling off the bottom shoddy parts and then pull the hackle fibers on one side of the hackel.
The left side if you keep the tip of the hackle up and the convex side (the hackle outside) against you.
Cut the last of the tip so that only a few mm is left.

5. Attache the tip where the tail begins and wind the tying thread forward against the eyes. 

6. Attach the luminous flashabou, 5-6 straw.

7. Wind a thorax.

8. Attach and cut of the flashabou. Secure the thread and cut it of.



9. Now we have come to the tricky part, applying the coat of hot melting glue.
This will take a little practice to master. It should be applied in the form of a carrot.
Tapering towards the tail.

10. The most common error to do is to apply too much hot melt glue.

11. Now start to wrap the hackle forward through the glue so that the hackle stem sinks into the glue and segmenting the body. 

The hackle will now be firmly secured in the glue.

12. When you arrive at your eyes, hold the hackle under tension so that it remain in the glue until the glue has set. It takes about 1 minute

13. Now you can cut of the hackle and the fly is finished 

Now you have a fly for fishing sea trout on the coast. It works just as well if you use the fly with a fly rod or with bombarda