How To Tie The Muddler Minnow Streamer Fly
HOW TO TIE THE MUDDLER MINNOW STREAMER
Muddler Minnow Streamer
The Muddler Minnow is a must-have fly originated by Don Gapen in the 1930's and refined and popularized by Dan Bailey in his fly shop in Livingston, Montana. Use it for imitating drowned hoppers, shallow darting minnows and wounded baitfish or sculpins, and as a skating or waking dry fly for steelhead and salmon. Salmon, steelhead, largemouth bass and trout attack this fly when given the chance! Tie some with both weighted and non-weighted bodies and in several sizes.
HOOK SIZES: 2, 4, 6, 8
HOOK OPTIONS: Tiemco 9395, Tiemco 765SP
THREAD: Brown 3/0
TAIL: Mottled brown turkey quill section. (TIP: Coat the entire turkey quill with Flexament before cutting individual wing and tail strips)
BODY: Oval or flat embossed gold tinsel
WING: Fox squirrel tail underwing topped by two mottled turkey tail quill section tied facing each other
COLLAR/HEAD: Natural deer hair spin on and clipped to bullet shape. (TIP: Change to single-strand floss for spinning the head)
HEAD CEMENT: Water based head cement
