What have you tied today?

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Scruffy soldier muddler, first fly for months
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[corsican dave]

they're lovely. have never got the hang of proper muddler heads, but fishing them has always been very productive. nice tying!  :

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Cheers folks, the long barred feather is grey mallard dyed pink (was supposed to be claret!) just a few strands tied in randomly, gives a kind of leggy look.

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One more before I stick the stuff away, hopefully not for months this time!
Invicta muddler
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[rannoch raider]

Andy, good to see you're tying again. They're the 'dugz bawz' as we sometimes say in the west! I like them all but I really like the Invicta Bumble job. I've never seen a muddler with the full 'bumble' Guinea or Jay hackle before. It's usually one or the other. I'll bet it's a killer. ;-)

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Cheers  I ditched the wing because I thought it was pretty pointless on a muddler and spun the Guinea much like I would cloak mallard on a dabbler, that's how I usually do it as it means you can control the length without trying to find a perfect feather, pretty chuffed with the invicta

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Silver invicta variant
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And a dunkeld of sorts, bit untidy at the head but hair adds a lot of bulk on a smaller fly (size10)
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A j/c ballcock, stole this off Stan headley  :worried
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