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Deer Hair
Thick, spongy hair from all kinds of deer

Buying Deer Hair

Shopping: In this chapter of our series we look at what to look for when buying deer hair for fly tying. Get the right material whether you are going to use it for caddis wings or for spinning bass bugs.
Get some buying tips here.

The Bat Fly

Emerger: To tie Andrew Herd's Bat Fly, you will need a packet of Polo mints, a pair of shears and a full-bore rifle.
Read more in this excerpt from Chris Sandford's book Mayflies and More
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Redfish Puff
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The Polar Conehead
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Steaming your materials
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Washing your materials
See "Rolled Muddler" by clicking here

Rolled Muddler
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Steelhead Beetle
Proceed to "Grantham's Sedge" here

Grantham's Sedge
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The CDC & Elk family
Find "The Terrible Muddler" on this page

The Terrible Muddler
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The Clouserish
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Clouser Deep Minnow
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Zoo Cougar
Videos with "Deer Hair - Thick, spongy hair from all kinds of deer" - More videos
Zoo Cougar Streamer
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Zoo Cougar Streamer Fly Tying Directions
Pike Angus
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Deadly pattern for Pike, Musky & and Pickerel.
Rolled Muddler Variant
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Hook: Partridge BIN #10
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, red
Tail: Whiting Coq de Leon hen saddle barbs
Body: Mylar #14, gold - tied flat
Rib: Mylar #14 - corded
Wing: Whiting Coq de Leon hen saddle barbs
Flash: Flash, opal
Collar/head: Deer hair

Muddler Minnow
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Detailed instruction for tying a Muddler Minnow.
Bullethead Caddisfly
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For this tutorial, I am demonstrating the process to tie Al & Gretchen Beatty's Bullethead Caddisfly. This is a very fun pattern to tie, especially for those who enjoy spinning deer hair. There are different ways to tie this pattern, especially for the bullethead; some insist placing the bullethead hair first, while others last. I chose the former for this pattern because I dislike crowding the remaining sections of this fly. This is also a fun pattern to fish, as I describe in the video.

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Hot Spot Muddler
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Hot Spot Muddler
Hook: Grip 14723BL #8
Thread: Sparton 6/0, black
Body: Seal's fur, hot orange - in split thread
Hot spot underwing: Lady Amherst tippets, dyed hot orange
Wing: Pintail flank barbs, dyed olive - sparse
Head/collar: Deer hair, dyed olive
Pattern and fly: Hans Weilenmann

The Black Tsunami
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A huge zonker/muddler
Matt's October Caddis
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Detailed instructions for tying Matt's October Caddis.
Yellow Sally Stimlator
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Yellow Sally Stimlator Fly Tying Instructions and Tutorial
Comparadun
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Comparadun Fly Tying Instructions and How To Tie Tutorial
Caribou Caddis
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Detailed instructions for tying a Caribou Caddis
Olive X-Caddis
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Detailed instructions for tying an Olive X-Caddis.
Bullet Head Caddis dry fly
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Adh-fishing TV fly tying video with Morten Valeur - Bullet Head Caddis dry fly.
Material:
Tiemco TMC 200R
Benecchi Thread ultrafine 10/0 and 12/0
Master Dub
CDC selected by Hends
Deer Body Hair
Pauls Head Varnish
Sili Legs Nymph by Wapsi

CDC Goddard Sedge dry fly
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A really thorough intro to Goddard's classic deer hair sedge/caddis with a CDC twist
Muddled Spratley
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Hook: Partridge BIN #10, Thread: Uni-thread 8/0, black, Rib: Polar flash, gold, Tail: Grizzly barbs, Body: Yorkshire flybody fur, black (or any semi-coarse black dubbing), Underwing: Cock pheasant center tail barbs - sparse, Flash: UV Ice Dub, tan - very sparse, Wing: Deer hair - sparse, Head: Deer hair, spun and clipped - sparse
CDC&Elk Flash (opal)
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Hook: Grip 14723BL #14, Thread: Benecchi 12/0, tan, Abdomen: Flashabou strand, opal - wrapped flat over bare shank, Thorax and strands: CDC feather, natural, Wing and head: Mule deer. See more about the CDC&Elk family here.
La Poitou
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Hook : TMC 212 Y, Tail : Moose, Thorax : SLF Dubbing. Wing : CDC fibres & Elk
DHE 2.0 (Deer Hair Emerger 2.0)
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Bob Wyatt's updated DHE. Hook: Partridge GRS 6A #12, Thread: Uni-thread 6/0, Brown, Rib: Tying thread, Abdomen: Hare, dyed olive (or color , to match the natural), Wing/shoulder: Deer hair, natural, Thorax: Hare's ear, natural, Note: To fish, apply paste floatant to wing and thorax only - the abdomen should ride below the film.
Slab Fly Variant
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A deerhead streamer that works very well for me fishing for Pike or Bass. Fishes well on both floating or intermediate lines. Strip it slowly with a little twitch in the end for the best action.
Tan Compara Dun Emerger
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Tying a Tan Compara Dun Emerger with Jim Misiura. No hackle, Deer hair wing emerger.

About "Deer Hair - Thick, spongy hair from all kinds of deer" from Blog Creek – GFF's weblog
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Green Machine
The Green Machine is a classic salmon fly from the Eastern part of Canada. It's fished as a wet fly in spite of being tied with deer hair and a hackle like a bomber. This article shows you step by step how to tie it and shows an alternative and easier way to create the green body.
  
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Tie a muddler
Martin Joergensen: "One evening when I was tying flies with a couple of friends, one of them, Nils, asked me to tie a muddler, just as a demo. I did. Luckily the other friend, Henning, was quick and caught these great pictures of the process."
  
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The Cautery
Martin Joergensen writes: "I always wanted one of these tools. I have seen them used at fly tying shows and by a few tyers elsewhere, and found the tool to be an excellent companion for the lazy and sloppy fly tyer. Just my kind of tool!"
  
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Bow River Bugger
Al Grombacher has shared with us one of the most effective patterns for the Bow River in Alberta, Canada, famed for its excellent fishing for rainbow trout.
  
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The Zuddler
Question: What to you get when you combine elements of a Muddler Minnow and a Zonker? Answer: A Zuddler - an excellent steelhead fly. Joe Emery and John Rode have combined a zonker strip, a muddler head and a cone head into a killer pattern.
  
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Black Funnel
This fly is kind of a coincidence. An idea. A fad. But it works. It is a funnel dun, Deveaux, Joergensen kind of pattern, which will imitate a hatching mosquito - albeit a very large one in the original version. It consists of two materials and is very easy to tie.
  
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Comparadone!
Comparaduns are one of the most versatile mayfly patterns in existence representing a low-riding mayfly to near perfection. However, many tiers shy this simple pattern due to the perceived complexity of tying the deer hair wings. Learn to master the technique with GFF partner Steve Schweitzer.
  
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CZCDNTM
A tube fly is different - a muddler is me - a tube muddler is a perfect choice. Tube muddlers are not unknown to me. I have tied and fished a few in my time, and I like them... so do the fish by the way.
  
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Muddler mania
It should be no secret that I'm a great fan of muddlers. These functional, characteristic and very beautiful flies that I connect directly with my favorite kind of fishing: night fishing for sea trout in the ocean. The technique used for tying them has always fascinated me, and although I do tie a lot of them, I still have a lot to learn in respect to spinning deer hair.
  
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Tying a muddler
The most important step in preparation is getting the right kind of hair. Buy your hair at a reliable source. Good spinning hair patches are dense and have little underfur. The single natural hair should be dull and light at the base, slightly waved at the root, and have a short tapered tan/black tip section.
  
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Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler, variations
This fly is in a way my 'signature fly'. It's a beautiful fly (in my own humble opinion), and even though it's heavy -- very heavy -- it's a good fishing fly, that dives deep and overcomes current and turbulence
  
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Deep in my heart
Deep in my heart, I prefer stream flyfishing for trout. However, Holland has precious few trout class streams, and next to none fishable trout, so most of my local flyfishing is for warmwater species. In fact all of my stream trout fishing happens abroad, mainly in the States, as well as in Belgium and Denmark.
  
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Nutria muddler
A large surface muddler for all fish that eat in the darkness.
  
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The Real Deer Hair
A sedge pattern in the Goddard tradition - with a twist This fly is a combination of the G+H Sedge and a hackling method adapted from Dutch Piet Weeda - making it a one-material-fly. By Sven Ostermann
  
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Thunder Creeks
Fifteen Thunder Creek patterns.
  
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Ghost Reindeer Shiner
This article should rightly be subtitled "what to do when you don't have the right material that a pattern calls for?"
  
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Thunder Creek flies
Kieth Fulsher was particularly concerned with the size of the head and the eyes. He didn't feel that thread heads with painted eyes or jungle cock eyes appropriately represented the large head of a minnow.
  
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Kluting
Kluting, a bottom seeking fly for pike, cod, pike perch and many other fish.
  
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Selecting deer hair
Choosing the right hair will make your deer hair flies - Comparaduns, EHC's, Muddlers, bass bugs - much easier to tie. By Chris Helm
  
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Monster Muddlers
A large muddler pattern for big fish. This one has caught both pike and baby tarpon.
  
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CDC&Elk
Hans Weilenmann's classical contemporary sedge fly.
  
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Cleaning hair
A chapter in the article Hair Stacking and Other Applicable Stuff by Wayne Luallen.
  
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Stacking material
When stacking materials it is important to consider it as consisting of more than just one process. There are several steps involved: material selection, cleaning and preparing, selecting the right tool and performing the stacking process itself. By Wayne Luallen
  
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Small muddler
Muddlers are a type of flies that I love to tie and fish with. And they also catch fish. In my small story from the Danish summer night, you can read what this small modest muddler can do. A fly I had a fair success with