Bass Muddlers

[onceahoosier 0]

I haven't fished these yet. After reading some posts and articles about marabou muddlers being good flies for bass, I tried a few myself. Couldn't resist adding eyes, I don't know if that will help....

 

 

Tom

[NJ All Day 0]

Those look great!

[JSzymczyk 0]

marabou muddlers are indeed great bass flies, and the ones you tied are superb. Very nice work!

[ditz2 0]

I really like the red and maraboo. I may need to tie a couple.

[brad432 0]

i like both of these, what do you use for the body, and the botom of the tail of the yellow, is that just a dry fly hackle feather?, i cant see it well

[onceahoosier 0]

i like both of these, what do you use for the body, and the botom of the tail of the yellow, is that just a dry fly hackle feather?, i cant see it well

 

Brad, the body on Muddlers is often a a gold tinsel. I used small round gold tubing used for minnow bodies on many patterns, just wrapped it around the hook up towards the eye. It makes for a slightly thicker body than tinsel. The tail on the yellow fly is a segment of turkey quill, which is also used for the wing on standard muddlers. For your info, the yellow fly was tied on a #4 hook using tan hair, the white fly is tied on a #2 hook using natural hair. At the risk of boring everyone, here's a cone head muddler I tied on a #2 hook. I thought I muffed up the trimming so I touched it up a bit after this picture. Hope the fish don't mind.

 

Tom

[bigfoot 0]

Are you wrapping the gold tubing on the hook then applying what looks to be deer hair over top of the tubing? BF

[onceahoosier 0]

Are you wrapping the gold tubing on the hook then applying what looks to be deer hair over top of the tubing? BF

 

Bigfoot, I wrap the body up to where the deer hair head will start. I don't spin hair on top of the gold tubing, although I imagine you could do it that way.

 

Tom

[bigfoot 0]

Thanks for the help. I was wondering how difficult it would be to spin deer hair on the tubing. BF