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Marabou Muddler

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Pike · Intermediate · 3 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook 3x streamer, 2-8
  • Thread Gray 6/0

Materials

  • Tail Red hackle fibers (short)
  • Body Silver tinsel chenille (full)
  • Wing White or gray marabou (full plume)
  • Overwing Peacock herl (4-6 strands)
  • Head/collar Spun deer hair, clipped (muddler style)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the 3x streamer hook and lay a thread base to the bend.
  2. Tie in a short bunch of red hackle fibres as a tail.
  3. Wrap a full silver tinsel chenille body forward, stopping about one-third behind the eye to leave room for the head.
  4. Tie in a full marabou plume as the wing over the top, extending to the end of the tail, then top it with 4-6 strands of peacock herl.
  5. Spin a bundle of deer hair in front of the wing, pack it back tight, and add a second bundle; the flared butts form the collar.
  6. Trim the spun deer hair to a rounded muddler head, leaving a swept-back collar.
  7. Whip finish behind the eye and cement.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Classic Recipe (2), Conehead.

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