Fuzzel Flies
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I posted this on our local Arkansas Board this morning but thought you guys might be interested as well in this article from my Mountain River Journal published before Christmas my mate Muz Wilson’s Fuzzle Series of Flies. The Aussie’s on here know Muz well, hisflies flat out work
Anyway here’s the except And make sure you check out the Video at the bottom to see the Fuzzel on the retrieve and how to tie them.
MOUNTAIN RIVER JOURNAL
The Online Chronicle for the Mountain River Fly Shop
DECEMBER 13, 2007
“The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able.” – Sparse Grey HackleFUZZLE FLIES
IF THERE is constant challenge in designing and tying “new” flies, be it salt or fresh, is making a hunk of steel, thread, fur and feather look alive. Size, shape, color are no doubt important but lesser factors to the “IT” factor we often term “buggy” _ as in that fly looks “buggy”.
How else do we fool a fish which we know can select itsy-bitsy food items yet eyeball scientists (which we think is the correct title) say actually have quite fuzzy vision.
“Bugginess” often gets adopted to messy flies, with odd and ends of material sticking out, carefully plotted loose fibers, waving in any current, simulating movement, hopefully shouting to a hungry trout “I’m alive”.Murray Wilson’s flies always look alive. Muz (any Aussie named Murray is always Muz) is probably Australia’s equivalent to “Copper” John Barr. Both their flies appeal to fly fishers and more importantly the trout and can be purchased on name alone. The Journal left Oz with Muz’s BMS and Hammerhead streamers in his flybox and they were eaten from Baja to Bozeman to Beaver Tailwater.
Muz’s BMS
Muz also happens to be a good bloke in the Aussie vernacular and we aren’t sure whose accent causes more consternation among the Mountain River crew when they telephone, Muz’s or my father’s.
A couple of years back via the Flylife magazine network the Journal started hearing rumors of a new Muz technique, the Fuzzle series. It took some pretty serious horsetrading and a fair bit of time to actually get some of these off Muz’s vice and into my flybox. Like the BMS the Fuzzels involved dubbing long flowing fibres and teasing them out into a translucent waving halo, the difference was the dubbing wasn’t added to the thread. The Fuzzel Buggers we received have the dubbing applied directly to a chenille body, the Fuzzel Nymph and Fuzzel Whitebait (minnow) apply the dubbing to translucent tubing.
Muz’s Fuzzel Bugger
The Journal has been playing with a Fuzzel Sowbug pattern for the White and Norfork, and we are pondering a Fuzzel Shad for the ’08 kill. Our premier tyer Jim Mengle saw the video you are about to see and came in for materials for the Fuzzel Bugger. The Fuzzel Grub below has some serious caddis application for spring, and possibly a midge. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
Fuzzel Caddis
Fuzzel Fish
We are working with Muz to see if we can import his special Fuzzel Dub from Australia, without costing you an arm or a leg, but there are alternatives. Davy Wotton’s SLF was the starting point for all Muz’s streamers, Ice Dub and Prism Dub have applications and we have been using some naturals. Choose any body materials you like from wire to chenille, yarn and tubing. The only other essential item is your Velcro brush. The instructions are simple, buy a popsicle, eat it, get the hook side of a piece of Velcro and stick it to the stick.
So here for your tying pleasure, courtesy of Aussie filmmaker John Haenke’s very nice Fly Fishing Downloads website is the Tying Video of the Fuzzel Bugger.
http://www.flyfishingdvddownloads.com/html/tyingFB.htmlYou will have to right click on the picture on the right and save the 56MB file, so a highspeed link is going to be mandatory. You will need a Quicktime Player to watch it.
For more tying inspirations, and patterns using the Fuzzel techniques like the Grub and Minnow, try the Fuss About Fuzzel from the Flylife Magazine website. http://www.flylife.com.au/library/articles/40/40.html
Or come into the store and talk to Steve or Jim.Incidentally if you aren’t a subscriber to the Journal and want to get our fishing report, tying articles, tips, videos and a dose of Aussie humor in you email inbox once a week
give me an email at journal@mtnriverflyshop.com to sign upCheers
SteveSteve, I got your back 😉 Any patterns from down under would be interesting to see. Full Credit to Muzz.
The best flies are always the simplest…
A white bead head Salty BMS is a great pattern for ‘eye’ feeders.
Didn’t see any mention of Spooks…?
A tan hammerhead has gotta be used on bonefish by someone!
Try this version of Muz’s Salty BMS for milkfish:
Best Regards,
Beechy
I was looking through some old photos for bream and found a couple of relative shots
A Fuzzel (the name Muz gave the pattern, my tie)
The Lark doing the ears is Muz, a mate (Rick Dobson) is holding the fish
Very cool Neal,
like the emergers particularlyI haven’t got the setup to shoot that small but Ive been catching fish on an #16 fuzzel sowbug too
It works
And its a damn site prettier than Muz LOL
Cheers
SteveIf I am going to tie a black fuzzel bugger, which color of dubbing would I use? I heard Muz say something about the dubbing needing to be a lighter shade than the chenille, but I don’t know how many shades to go down from there.
Dusty
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