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 The Global FlyFisher - A Good Place to go for Online Fly Fishing and Fly TyingPatternsFirst published October 15th 2002 - More than 11 years ago
CZCDNTMChicago-Zürich-Copenhagen Delayed Nutria Tube MuddlerBy Martin Joergensen
What extensive travelling can lead to...In Chicago a person who knows my web site steps up to my tying table and asks me to tie one of these: A Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler "Well, I can't" says I, "I'm only tying tube flies at this show!" Showing him the Q-Tips and my primitive tube vice tool a thought strikes me."Why not tie it as a tube?" Muddlers and tubes go together very well. So I get out my darning needles, my new tube tool as a backup, deer hair, my nutria skin, some tinsels and get started. And as hoped the fly comes out a beauty. Large but yet light, brutal but yet elegant. Just my kind of fly. I show off to the rest of the spectators and my fellow tyers at the table.  Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler  Choose your favorite color I have this Illustrated Pattern Swap coming up. It's the third and I have been in both the earlier ones. I want to make something that's me, but hopefylly something different from what everybody else is doing. 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'em... so do the fish by the way. I'm on my way back from Chicago. My trip over was a horror show with cancellations and delays and lost luggage. I went from Copenhagen to Zürich, Zürich to New York, New York to Chicago. And the my bag with all my tying stuff (and clean underwear) was three days late. The trip back has only one cancellation and a four hour delay which gives me time to draw up sketches of the fly. I'm munching Swiss cookies and drinking espressos in the business class lounge in Zürich Airport. What a releaf after the thin American coffee. As time passes I dub the fly The Chicago-Zürich-Copenhagen Delayed Nutria Tube Muddler – or CZCDNTM for short. I go over the tying process in my head, and let the pencil work on my newly aquired sketch paper. I'm not good at drawing, but things work out OK anyway. I can see what's happening with the fly - so will the IPS audience... hopefully. This is an unfished fly. It or any of its kindred has never touched water. It will work. I fell the confidence as I hear the boarding call to the plane to Copenhagen. I decide not to include tying instructions with my submission. Just some sound advice on tying tubes and muddlers. I consider both types great fishing flies and great fun to tie. Here are the points I want to stress: Tubes: Play with some inexpensive tubes. I use Q-Tips. Cut off the cotton and melt a small collar with a flame. Use a large darning needle as your tube vice. You can always buy Slipstream copper tubes and an expensive Renzetti tube vice later. And remember: tubes require a lot of material and demand more than usual precision because of the large surface on the shank. Especially tinsel bodies are more than revealing.   Two different muddler dressings on a tube Fishing this thinggy is a challenge. Don't try casting a fly like this on your average trout rod. This is a big fly with weight and air resistance. It's ment to be fished on a two hand rod, but with some gentle movements it can no doubt be cast on a heavy single hander in the 8-9-10 range. 
Neat stacking and close trimming is essential for the appearance of a good muddler
 
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