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Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler

Proportions


An oldie pattern from GFF

By Martin Joergensen

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Generally I'm not hysterical about the proportions of my flies.

I like them to be harmonic, but I'm shure that most fish don't care whether the hackle i 1 or 1.2 times the hook gap.
But with my Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler I've tried to describe how the ideal fly should look. This fly is quite nice looking as it is, so why not try to make it look even nicer?

The drawing shows the suggested proportions of this fly. Even my own flies don't always look like that, but I'm trying...


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