1. Start the thread about halfway back from the hook eye. Weight the hook
with lead wire if a sinking pattern is required. Tie in a tail of black
marabou equal to the length of the hook shank and add a rib of copper
wire.
2. Add a body of peacock herl. Tie in several strands, twist into a rope
and wrap forward in touching turns, leaving sufficient space for the head.
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Muddled Bugger
3. Tie in a brown hackle by the butt at the front of the body.
Wrap it back in open turns to the tail. Trap the hackle at the tail with
copper wire and wind the wire as a rib forward through the hackle. Wiggle
the wire back and forth as you wind it to minimize trapping the fibres.
Tie off the wire at the front of the body and cut off the excess.
Muddled Hopper
4. Tie in a grizzly hackle by the butt where you've tied off the wire rib.
Dub a head of bright orange seal fur and wrap the hackle in open turns
through the head. Tie off the hackle and trim the excess. Form a small,
neat head. ~ Sheldon Seale
Credits: From the Fall 2002 issue of The Canadian Fly Fisher.
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