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Muddlers
Flies made from spun deer hair

The Polar Conehead

Muddler: This is a muddler design type of fly that is more or less a derived idea based on something that has been copied many times, but never the less an efficient fly that has caught the author many fish.
See the pattern here

Rolled Muddler

Deer hair: I met the Rolled Muddler in BC while fishing for Pacific salmon, but like it so much that I'll tie up a bunch for my local seatrout, and I'm sure they will work.
See how to tie it here

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The Terrible Muddler

A mess: This is the lazy man's muddler, the sloppy tier's muddler, the beginner's muddler. It's actually quite close in style to some of the first Muddler Minnows tied by Don Gapen back in the 30's.
See how to tie it here.

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Tie a muddler

Pictures: 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."
These step-by-step pictures show you how to tie a nice muddler.

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Messy Pike Fly

Big fish fly: Not one of Martin Joergensen's usual pike flies. For that it is way too complex and has too many tying steps and too many different materials. He doesn't like complex pike flies. "I spend dozens of minutes tying one, and a pike spends seconds shredding it!" he says.
He ties it just the same in this article.

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Bow River Bugger

Wooly Bugger and muddler: 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

Steelhead fly: 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.
Read their story in the Patterns section

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SHCZCDNTM

Again: Yep! It's yet another one of that Danish madman's muddlers. This time with an even longer name: The Short Heavy Chicago-Zürich-Copenhagen Delayed Nutria Tube Muddler or SHCZCDNTM for easier remembering!
Read Martin Joergensen's further explanation here

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Fall Streamers

Streamers: Looking for some juicy streamers to swing in your favorite trout stream or pond in the coming Fall? Check out these attractive flies from a streamer swap hosted by Scott Daskiewich.
Click here to see the flies in the Streamer section

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CZCDNTM

Tubed: 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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Tube Muddler

A great looking tube fly

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Monster Muddler

A large muddler for pike

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Zoo Cougar Streamer

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Zoo Cougar Streamer Fly Tying Directions

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.

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

OVM Muddler

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A nice zonker/muddler

The Black Tsunami

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A huge zonker/muddler

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

Davie's Damsel Nymph Muddler

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Tying Davie's Damsel Nymph Muddler By Davie McPhail.

The Sunburst Coral Muddler

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Tying a Sunburst Coral Muddler by Davie McPhail.

In the search of dinosaurs

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It's about fly fishing for Tararira or Wolffish in our homewater Lake Salto in Argentine, casting, drills and some pictures.

The Sunburst Kate McLaren

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Davie McPhail ties the Sunburst Kate McLaren, a great looking muddler.

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Inspiration
A few muddlers as inspiration

Go to Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler, variations

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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Muddler spec.
Muddlers are mostly used for dusk or night fishing in the summer. Muddlers will work in the surface, streaming, making a wave wich can be seen by the fish against the light sky. Muddlers move a lot of water and form a good profile. Almost any type of muddler can be used for this fishing although dark and black patterns seem best.

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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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Sculpin
This forage fish feature (say that 5 times fast!) is a the third in a series of articles being created as a group effort by members of the Streamer List. There are over 300 species of sculpins, most of them are salt water or brackish water occupants, but several are found in North America.

Fishing the Muddler Minnow
The muddler can double as a serviceable grasshopper, cricket or even damselfly nymph. One can fish it dry and doped up, damp, wet and sunk.

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Magnus Muddler
This muddler is tied on a small stainless Mustad hook using orange deer hair, orange dyed grizzly hackle and natural rabbit dubbing with a bit of orange flash mixed in. A small beauty indeed and sooo easy to see at night.

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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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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

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