Mine was a muddler minnow..A few years ago, my mother had some 60 year old friend from college or whatever come over for dinner, with his wife. he had brought somne of his Very, VERY old fly tying stuff from back in the day, and asked me if i wanted to learn how to...i said yes. turns out, all he could remember how to tie was a muddler minnow. mine looked like it was asembled by a blind, drunken monkey. but it did get me started