On the August 1988 issue of Trout and Salmon Alastair Gowans revealed his latest creation — the Ally’s Shrimp.

A legendary fly that since then the Ally’s Shrimp has probably taken fish from every salmon producing river in the world.  

Alastair Gowans’s intention was to produce an illusion of something “shrimpy” and semitranslucent.

This pattern will fish well throughout the season.