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Upavon Fly Fishing

Crustachenille

$4.95

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Description

Upavon Crustachenille is a dedicated crustacean chenille designed and tested specifically for shrimp, scud, and crayfish pattern bodies — the fiber profile and color combinations are engineered to imitate crustacean segmentation and translucency in a way that standard chenille doesn't achieve. Wrap it for the body on shrimp and scud patterns for trout and saltwater species, use it on crayfish and freshwater prawn imitations for bass and bonefish, or build out the body on any bottom-feeding pattern where the material needs to read as invertebrate anatomy at close inspection distance.

Fishing Profile

Fly Tying Material
Best for
Trout, Inshore, Bass
Presentation
Bottom
Techniques
Fly Casting, Bottom Fishing, Still Fishing
WaterSaltwater

Field Notes

Use Crustachenille as a fly-tying material to build or wrap crustacean-style bodies on shrimp, scud, crayfish, and prawn imitations. It’s intended to create more realistic crustacean segmentation and translucency than standard chenille, especially for close-inspection bottom-feeding patterns.

Pros

  • Designed specifically to imitate crustacean segmentation and translucency
  • Works well for shrimp/scud/crayfish pattern bodies
  • Useful for both trout and saltwater bottom-feeding invertebrate imitations

Cons

  • Not a finished lure—requires fly tying

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