The strong sense of aggressiveness showed by some fish quite often contributes to the success of all those anglers that are able to set up determine strategies for approaching to the river. A large trout, but also a pike or a dace, is frequently conditioned to give vent to his unrestrainable instinct of predator, reacting with violence when this is fomented by us.
It happens so that a beautiful brownie, which lies under the leafy frond of a bush, springs for making his suddenly attack as soon as he sees an heavy dressed and multicolour artificial crossing his resting place, even if he has not previously manifested interest in feeding. The reasons of such a behaviour can be found in the fact that some flies, in particular the gaudy streamers fruit of our fantasy, are able to provoke a strong excitation to the fish, stimulating in him the appetite or the greediness, but also the curiosity, the territoriality or aggressiveness: feelings, in practical, that can induce him to take a prey without an urgent need of food. Knowing this characteristic of our adversary, if we are going to tempt a trout with an apathetic behaviour and that appears deep-rooted to the river bottom, like he is asleep, a solution for getting his capture can be to “wake up” and to allure him with a corpulent and multicoloured streamer.
Effective artificial appertaining to this category of stimulating artificials is the Orange Muddler Minnow, a sort of golden fish imitation, fruit of the coloured elaboration of a celebrated American fly, excellent for the great versatility of use that it demonstrates in the most disparate situations. The Orange Muddler Minnow, in fact, thanks to its particular silhouette, is suitable for fishing both on lakes and rivers, adapting itself to the techniques with the floating and with sinking lines, in agreement with the lying level of the trout. This streamer is very useful also for ashore sea trout fishing, in fact I have included it in the selection of flies that I prefer to face the Fyn Island coasts, in Denmark. As rule, to render the fly particularly attractive, we should propose it to the fish using “dynamic” systems of presentation, animating it, for example, with irregular retrieves of line and with movements of rod tip.
When we can fish by seeing the trout, a valuable stratagem is to make swim silently and slowly the streamer close to the fish’s nose and then to wriggle it away as soon as we notice that our finned adversary is observing our colourful proposal with curiosity, but without attacking it. Such a wriggle must be done with an abrupt tear of line and followed by a short but quite quickly retrieve, that ends with a long pause. An artificial that behaves in this way has the power to irritate the fish and this can decide to go away annoyed, or, more probably, to react by giving a lesson to the intruder.
It happens so that a beautiful brownie, which lies under the leafy frond of a bush, springs for making his suddenly attack as soon as he sees an heavy dressed and multicolour artificial crossing his resting place, even if he has not previously manifested interest in feeding. The reasons of such a behaviour can be found in the fact that some flies, in particular the gaudy streamers fruit of our fantasy, are able to provoke a strong excitation to the fish, stimulating in him the appetite or the greediness, but also the curiosity, the territoriality or aggressiveness: feelings, in practical, that can induce him to take a prey without an urgent need of food. Knowing this characteristic of our adversary, if we are going to tempt a trout with an apathetic behaviour and that appears deep-rooted to the river bottom, like he is asleep, a solution for getting his capture can be to “wake up” and to allure him with a corpulent and multicoloured streamer.
Effective artificial appertaining to this category of stimulating artificials is the Orange Muddler Minnow, a sort of golden fish imitation, fruit of the coloured elaboration of a celebrated American fly, excellent for the great versatility of use that it demonstrates in the most disparate situations. The Orange Muddler Minnow, in fact, thanks to its particular silhouette, is suitable for fishing both on lakes and rivers, adapting itself to the techniques with the floating and with sinking lines, in agreement with the lying level of the trout. This streamer is very useful also for ashore sea trout fishing, in fact I have included it in the selection of flies that I prefer to face the Fyn Island coasts, in Denmark. As rule, to render the fly particularly attractive, we should propose it to the fish using “dynamic” systems of presentation, animating it, for example, with irregular retrieves of line and with movements of rod tip.
When we can fish by seeing the trout, a valuable stratagem is to make swim silently and slowly the streamer close to the fish’s nose and then to wriggle it away as soon as we notice that our finned adversary is observing our colourful proposal with curiosity, but without attacking it. Such a wriggle must be done with an abrupt tear of line and followed by a short but quite quickly retrieve, that ends with a long pause. An artificial that behaves in this way has the power to irritate the fish and this can decide to go away annoyed, or, more probably, to react by giving a lesson to the intruder.
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INSTRUCTIONS
We face the first step for building our Orange Muddler Minnow introducing the hook into the vice jay and wrapping around a good portion of its shank the fine lead wire. Next, we apply the orange thread to the shank and we turn it over the lead until we bring it to the bend, where we tie in a bunch of fibres stripped off from a long cock hackle dyed of orange. These fibres must be placed so that their tips extend backwards for nearly half the length of the hook shank
On the fixing point of the tails, we bind in a piece of small oval gold tinsel and the end of an orange floss spool inserted in a second bobbin holder. Then we turn the thread around the two rear thirds of the hook shank, creating a homogenous under-body
Wrapping the floss along the under-body, we realise the Orange Muddler Minnow body, which then is ribbed with wide turns of gold tinsel
From the orange Arctic fox tail, we cut off a tuft of hairs and we tie it on the hook, placing it in front of the body. The bunch of hairs must be bound in so that it extends backward exceeding the tips of the tails
Trimmed off the excess of the fox hair, we tie in, over the wings, four or five filaments of pearly Crystal Hair and a pair of peacock sword herls
Now we cut off a rich bunch of hairs from the natural red deer fur, we arrange it around the hook section in front of the body and, with two or three turns of thread, we bind in it so that the tips of the hairs extend backwards for the same length of the body
We proceed with our work by tying in, on the front third of the hook, a series of red deer hair tufts, putting them all around the shank and one in front of the other
With a pair of very sharp scissors, or with the blade of a razor, we model the fly head, shaving the deer hairs until we transform them in a sort of compact sphere or cone. Making the cuts, we have not to trim the tips of the first tuft of hairs, because it has the function of collar
With some turns of thread behind eye, we complete the head of the streamer and then we whip finish it
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A drop of clear varnish applied on the coils of thread will render the Orange Muddler Minnow stronger, allowing us to use it for a long time during our fishing expeditions
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MATERIALS LIST
HOOK: for streamer, suitable for saltwater if used on the sea, size 10 to 4
BALLAST: fine lead wire
THREAD: orange
TAIL: fibres from an orange cock hackle
BODY: orange floss
RIBBING: small oval gold tinsel
WINGS: orange Arctic fox hairs with over four or five filaments of pearly Crystal Hair and two herls from the peacock’s sword
COLLAR AND HEAD: natural red deer hairs
BALLAST: fine lead wire
THREAD: orange
TAIL: fibres from an orange cock hackle
BODY: orange floss
RIBBING: small oval gold tinsel
WINGS: orange Arctic fox hairs with over four or five filaments of pearly Crystal Hair and two herls from the peacock’s sword
COLLAR AND HEAD: natural red deer hairs
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