Zuddler

[scot]

Saw the zuddler zach used and would like to tie up some anyone have some tying instructions? Zach should think about a photo tutorial! Hint Hint

[theboxkid]

I have been trying to find a pattern for the Zuddler for a while now, and I can’t find one anywhere (a detailed one anyway).

[Zach Matthews]

It’s a complicated tie and I’d need to look up all the steps, guys, but it has a zonker strip back, a tinsel-dubbing silver belly, some red tinsel for gills, rubber legs, a cone head with a spun deer hair head behind it.

[mark dickinson]

Check out GFF article on the zuddler here: http://www.globalflyfisher.com/patterns/zuddle … ite_purple

[paul taylor]

pancho,

could this be a substitute for the zuddler?  i’ve tied these up in black, olive, white & even leech red.  they work extremely well and are extremely easy to tie!  you might want to give’em a shot.  i have been successful with them.  let me know your experience with the pattern.   ciao and tight lines!

here are the tying instructions:

http://www.riversflyfishing.com/pats/bunbug.php

[Bob Riggins]

Quote:

pancho,

could this be a substitute for the zuddler? /quote]

How about this one on a little larger scale?

[Mike Anderson]

Paul that’s a good pattern in White too. Also you can use some saddle feathers for a tail as an alternative to Bunny tail and a cone head also works for a heavier fly.

[Mike Anderson]

Dunfly I LOVE that fly! The colors are my favorite. You know what they say, if it aint chartreuse it aint no use.
Here’s a bunny fly I use Frequently.

[scot]

Thanks guys for the replies I think I figured it out bought some lite brite dubbing tyed some up last night look pretty much like the ones in zach’s photos archives. Fishing them this weekend will let everyone how they went. Zach what size do you tieuse them in, I tied them up in a size four with a tungston conehead.

[jim dietrich]

Pancho,
How close is this?
http://users.eastlink.ca/~dryfly/zonker.htm

[Zach Matthews]

Here’s an email I dug up. This may help.

Zach

Zuddler Minnow

Hook: #2-6 4x long shank, heavy wire
Wing: Zonker strip, 3/8″-1/2″, choose the thick-coated ones
Tail: Pearl Krystal flash
Body: Dubbed lite brite
Weight: .030 lead wire/Tungsten substitute
Head: Size large size silver or brass cone
Gill: Red Lite brite
Legs: Sz. Medium rubber
Collar: Spun deer hair

Instructions:

1. String conehead, mount hook, and start thread above point of hook.
2. Tie in 4 strands krystal flash extending 3/4″ off the back of the bend of the hook (important: keeps fly from fouling).
3. Cut Zonker strip 2x hook length. Cut end of tail to diamond point. Tie in at the midpoint of the strip, right above where the Krystal flash is tied, pulling the fur back to make the wraps on the skin alone.
4. Wrap .030 lead wire over the middle 50% of the hook, leaving the front 25% and the rear 25% wire free.
5. With the thread still at the flash/zonker strip tie in point, dub liberally lite brite and palmer forward to form cigar shaped body.

[robert_lee]

Zach – do you have a profile pic of the fly?

[scot]

Thank so much Zach I have been tying them very similar except I have been using a tungston conehead and .025 lead. On the white ones I had a hard time finding white body hair had to use belly hair didn’t like nearly as much as the body hair. They are a killer fly had a very large brown on the white one last Sunday on The North Branch of the Potomac in Maryland.

[Zach Matthews]

Robert –

This is the best I can do:

Zach

[scot]

Fished The North Branch of the Potomac in Maryland yesterday used all zuddlers water was low and clear but the browns were in there. Caught this one on a brown zuddler about six inches long very similar to the one Zach just posted.

[Zach Matthews]

Excellent!

[scot]

Zach,

[flybug.pa.]

Where exactly can you buy some zuddlers , I have not seen any in catalogs?

[Zach Matthews]

Orvis and Rainy’s.

Zach

[darth wader]

I happened apon the last two olive and last white zuddlers at the Orvis warehouse sale today.

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