There seemed to be some interest in this fly. I know there are some very experienced tyres’ on the board. I thought the beginners might appreciate this. I have never tried posting the tying stages before so please forgive my photo quality. There are different ways to tye this fly, this is just the way i do it.
The Rolled Muddler
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1. Start with a streamer hook, slipping the brass or tungsten bead on first. (This is a size 8 Timeco TMC 9395 streamer hook)
2. Tye in a 10-12 Barred Lemon Wood Duck quills as a tail
3. Next tye in some silver wire, then some gold tinsel (I used Holographic)
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4. Wrap the tinsel forward leaving a 1/4" gap he hind the brass bead and tye it off. Trim excess.
5. Now counter wrap the silver wire forward and tye it off
6. Select a Barred Lemon Wood Duck feather. Remove the fluffy stuff off the base of the feather and comb it out to expose the tip
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7. Tye in the feather tip first, making sure the outside surface (brighter side) of the feather is facing to the head of the fly. By doing this, the fibers will lay properly, angling back toward the tail
8. Comb the fibers back, trying to almost fold the feather in half over its stem
9. Start firmly wrapping the feather around, stroking back quills as you wrap. Apply 2-3 wraps, usually less is more.
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10. Tye off the feather and trim stem and any excess.
