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Muddler Minnow
How do you tie a Muddler Minnow?
Muddler Minnow is a streamer fly pattern for Smallmouth Bass, Panfish, Trout. Find its 6 materials and 13 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 4 of 5
- Target species
- Smallmouth Bass, Panfish, Trout
- Pattern designer
- Don Gapen
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Materials
- Streamer Hook, TMC 5263, sizes 4-10
- Thread (140 Denier), Brown
- Turkey Tail Feather
- Gold Flat Tinsel
- Squirrel Tail, Gray
- Natural Deer Hair (spun/clipped head)
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Tying instructions
Create a thread base covering the rear 3/4 of the hook shank.
Tie in two turkey feather sections extending from the bend.
Tie in a strand of oval tinsel at the base of the tail. Wrap thread forward.
Wrap oval tinsel forward. Secure at front edge of thread base.
Trim a clump of squirrel tail and tie in along top of shank.
Trim two additional sections of turkey feather. Tie in over squirrel along opposite sides of the shank.
Trim a bundle of deer body hair. Stack hair to even tips.
Secure deer hair around shank with two loose wraps of thread. Then pull tight to splay hairs.
Push forward facing fibers back and wrap thread forward.
Trim a second thicker bundle of deer hair.
Tie in around shank with two loose wraps. Then pull tight to splay fibers.
Push fibers back and wrap thread forward. Whip finish and trim thread.
Trim head to desired shape.