Sorry, another stupid question..........

I'm making my maiden voyage on a week from Memorial day out of New Brighton Beach and was wondering how big these shrimp flies are and what colors are favorites. 

The reason I ask is I tie for flyfishing and would like to whip up some before my trip.

Thanks for all the help!

rob - jrsyboy

Anything big and white with maybe a little red in it will work.
Use white bucktail with a red throat. It doesn't have to be pretty.
When fly fishing for blues and blacks I tie a big white weighted wooly bugger with bead eyes.
It slays them.

Purple and black feathers work well,along with an orange white deer hair.
I got a few sockeye salmon flys in Alaska and they seem to work real well. They are made of dyed deer hair on a long shanked hook. I have them in red/white, green/white and yellow and white; all work real well on those "chuckleheads" (rockfish.)

What works well too, according to my friends daughter, is gummy worms. She has been using them since she was a kid and she swears by them. Wierd huh?!

Tinsel works EXTREMELY well too, I stock up after x-mas when it's 75% off.  A 4/0 hook with a fat 6" tinsel streamer is perfect - lings will fight over it.

The lower jig caught a 23lb lingcod and many other fish one day:


Note also how half the tinsel has been bitten off the upper jig!