I realize this is a strange-looking fly, but I could fish it 100% of the time in the salt - it catches reds, specs, flounder, ladyfish, mackerel
my variation on Ally's Shrimp
here's a view from the top
Size 6 stainless hook,
Shrimp or orange kevlar thread
tail a mix of krystal flash and bucktail in shrimpy colors
stainless bead chain eyes outside the bend
build up a body of thread
dry fly hackle palmered with the thread, reducing toward the eye
wing of two trimmed pheasant crest feathers
pheasant rump soft hackle