Muddlers

Flies made from spun deer hair

Muddlers - articles

Article There's deer hair ... Jan 25. 2024 Materials ... and then there's deer hair. And it can be many different things. It is not at all that easy to find the right kind for the many patterns with this fantastic material Deer hair 101	Article IPS '96: Muddler Nov 17. 2017 Swap This is my entry from the first ever Illustrated Pattern Swap in 1996. No idea what an Illustrated Pattern Swap is? Well read on and learn. And see my entry here	Article Sea Trout Munker May 5. 2014 Salty muddler Inspired by Kim Sorensen's salmon fly the Munker I set out to make a sea trout variant for the salt See what I ended up with here
Article The Munker May 5. 2014 Tube muddler A very successful Danish muddler tube fly developed by Kim Sorensen for salmon and sea trout, particularly suited for slow water. Muddler and Zonker becomes Munker	Article Gapen's Muddler Minnow Jun 1. 2013 Messy Minnow This is an article about Don Gapen's original Muddler Minnow - a fly that is tied in countless versions and has inspired thousands of patterns, but only few that resemble the original See how it differs here	Article The Polar Conehead Sep 10. 2012 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
Article Rolled Muddler Mar 3. 2012 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	Article The Terrible Muddler Jul 17. 2011 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.	Article Tie a muddler Jul 14. 2007 Pictures 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.
Article Messy Pike Fly Sep 1. 2006 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.	Article Bow River Bugger Nov 30. 2005 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. Click here to read more.	Article The Zuddler Aug 14. 2004 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