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Mouse

Nymph · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Pike · Largemouth Bass · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Stout streamer/bass hook, 2-6
  • Thread Tan or brown 3/0 (210 denier)

Materials

  • Chamois, leather, or rabbit strip Tan/gray chamois leather or rabbit strip (1 short strip (tail))
  • Deer or elk body hair Natural tan/gray deer or elk body hair (several clumps (spun body))
  • Rubber legs or mono Natural (whiskers, optional) (few)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread at the bend and tie in a thin chamois or rabbit-strip tail about one shank length long, lying flat.
  2. Cut, clean, and stack a clump of deer body hair, then spin it around the shank and pack it back tight; repeat clump by clump, packing hard, forward to the eye to build a dense body.
  3. Whip finish at the eye and remove the fly from the vise.
  4. Trim the spun deer hair to a rounded mouse shape, flat on the bottom and tapered to a pointed nose, leaving it slightly larger at the rear.
  5. Optionally poke a couple of mono or rubber whiskers into the nose and add small ears.
  6. Add a drop of cement to the whip finish.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Mini.

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