Muddler head technique

[marcelotero19 0]

Hi guys,

 

I found on internet a few flies with a muddler head on them.

I know the technique using the deer hair, but in this case it seems a different material to me.

Am I wrong?

Could be the hackle tied in a particular way and then trimmed?

Because in the picture the head seems the very same colour of the hackle..

 

 

[vicente 0]

That's deer hair

[flytire 0]

yup thats deer hair

[Piker20 0]

They have used dyed deer hair. You don't need to worry about it for real life fishing. I use a lot of muddlers and the movement and water push is the reason they attract the fish. Not the colour of the head. I tie all mine with red deer hide

[mikechell 0]

The head is the same color as the HAIR ... not the hackle.

Most visible on the first one, the HACKLE is blue/black ... the HAIR is the same color as the head.

When you tie in a clump of deer hair, holding the tips down to keep them from flairing too much, the butt ends will flair up and spread out. Then trim the butt ends to make the head shape.

[marcelotero19 0]

thanks all for comments.

The colour of it confused me, as I didn't ever see deer hair of those colours.

I'll try to tie in the natural deer hair I've got, and see how it works in the water

[mikechell 0]

Marcel,

Most muddler patterns I've seen were tied in natural colors, so yours should do well. Dyed deer hair is the norm, these days ... especially on bass bugs.

This one's not mine ... but I liked it:

 

[marcelotero19 0]

Yeah, I'm new in fly tying so there are a lot of materials I haven't seen yet.

I've only seen deer hair dyed for most common colours like black, olive but never seen claret and that blue which seems a sort of guinea fowl dyed blue or blue jay (to me)

 

I'll tie some flies and see them in action in the water, which is the most important thing!