Original Muddler Minnow

4 months ago
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as originally conceived by Don Gapen, August 1936
from the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla

Hook: #1 - 12 3x long
Thread: black
Tail: turkey wing slips
Body: flat gold tinsel
Wing: bucktail under gray squirrel tail between turkey wing slips
Collar: spun deer hair, tips toward bend, butt ends loosely trimmed

Head cement recipe:
Goop
Xylene (epoxy thinnner)

Instructions:
Fill a quart jar half full with Xylene
Squeeze a tube of Goop into the Xylene
Shake until the Goop is dissolved; add Xylene to desired consistency

Apply with a pin or needle dipped in the liquid

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