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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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SHCZCDNTM

Jul 30. 2003
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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CZCDNTM

Oct 15. 2002
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

Jan 18. 2002
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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Muddler mania - Small Polar Muddler

Jan 1. 2002
Muddlers A small muddler
Pattern here
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Muddler mania - Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler

Jan 1. 2002
Muddlers A conehead muddler/zonker
Pattern here
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Deep in my heart

Feb 1. 2001
Flies 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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Sculpin

Oct 4. 2000
Forage 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.
Read more here
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Selecting deer hair

Feb 10. 1997
Tips Choosing the right hair will make your deer hair flies - Comparaduns, EHC's, Muddlers, bass bugs - much easier to tie.
Advice from the master here
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Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler, variations

Sep 10. 1995
Muddler 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, actually - it's a good fishing fly, that dives deep and overcomes current and turbulence.
See it here.

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