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The Terrible Muddler

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The Mango

A Mickey Finnish zonker: The Mickey Finn is one of the first streamers many beginning fly tyers learn to tie. Kasper Mühlbach never used it and for years a yellow and orange fly was missing in his fly box. Last year he was inspired to tie a replacement.
Get the fruity pattern for The Mango here.

Go to the article "Kai's Green Terror"

Kai's Green Terror

Ugly: If one day you should lie on the bank pounding your fists into the sand in frustration over the lack of fish and someone sneaks around the corner offering you a chartreuse coloured fly, perhaps it's German Kai Nolting who brings you the fly that will save your day:
Kai's Green Terror

Find "The Chicken or Pasta Fly" here

The Chicken or Pasta Fly

IPSY2K: Too much about airplane food... and too little about fly tying and fly fishing. An ancient pattern from the Illustrated Pattern Swap year 2000.
Will it be chicken or pasta?

Skip to "Salty dreams and glassy shrimp"

Salty dreams and glassy shrimp

Salt: Chris Edghill writes: "Fascinating to see how they worked together, one would dive in between the rocks and sea grass, completely burying itself and the others just milled around waiting for a shrimp to dart out from it's hiding place where it would be quickly devoured."
This experience spawned his S.L.S. Shrimp

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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.

The Terrible Muddler

Type Cold saltwater fly

Originator
Martin Joergensen

Year of origin
2007

Difficulty
Easy

Materials

Hook Long shank streamer hook, size #4-#2
Thread 6/0 color as materials
Tail 2-4 straws of flash, folded
Body Mylar tubing
Hackle Rooster
Head Dee hair, spun and trimmed

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