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Translucent	$Banding - The segmentation is sometimes broken up with some obvious vertical banding - \"tiger stripes\" almost, as seen on this animal.$ Banding	Bare
Humpy	See thru	A cleaner shrimp
Color	Colorful	Outline
Top view	Shrimp anatomy for the fly tyer	$A shrimp...? - It\'s pretty far fetched to say that this store bought shrimp-imitation looks anything like the shrimp that swims in the waters it\'s supposed to be used in. It can probably catch fish, but it takes the Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder of fish to mistake it for a shrimp!$ A shrimp...?
Glitter Shrimp	A Non-pink Pig-like fly	Orange Rabbit Shrimp
The Pink Pig	$Eskol\'s Mini Pig - The compact and easy version of the notorious Pink Pig. <a href=\"/patterns/mini-pig/\">See materials and full pattern description</a>.$ Eskol's Mini Pig	Silicone Shrimp
Epoxy Shrimp	Another Kern Lund shrimp	$Swedish Chewy Shrimp - Tied by Swedish Jesper Malmberg and used for perch. Uses a soft body material to provide the right \"chewy\" senstation$ Swedish Chewy Shrimp
Upside down	Honey shrimp	Nice, but...
$Perfect Copper Shrimp - Based on Kern Lund\'s Perfect Leo Shrimp, this gets close, but still has a broom for a mouth$ Perfect Copper Shrimp	Popovic style	$A hot glue shrimp imitation - The glue lends itself perfectly to shrimp bodies, and this fly by Danish Thomas Madsen from <a href=\"http://flueopskrifter.dk\">flueopskrifter.dk</a> uses very few other tricks to obtain a close to perfect imitation$ A hot glue shrimp imitation
$Glue shrimp - This nice shrimp was tied by Swedish Per MÃ¥hrd using hot melt glue and nylon. Shorter antennae and more legs, and we\'d be close...$ Glue shrimp	Lagathu's shrimp	S.L.S. - Sun Light Shrimp
A Perfect Ghost Shrimp	Shrimp fish!

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