Mini Muddler Minnow

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The perfect minnow streamer pattern for any river or stillwater, fish this classic for the 'big boys'! Is a great pattern to fish at dusk when the big Browns and Rainbows are on the hunt. Can be used a minnow imitation when weighted and as a grasshopper imitation or injured baitfish without weight. A mainstay streamer pattern, designed to create an interesting disturbance on the water.

Muddler Mini

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The Muddler is a remarkably versatile pattern. When fished on the surface it will imitate a variation of terrestrial bugs, also such delights as grasshoppers to wounded minnows. Underwater it many well appearance to the trout as a large nymph or small baitfish. What ever it is seen as, it has accounted for many ;and it is a worthy of inclusion to any Flybox.

Stewart's Olive Millionaire Taddy

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line. My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Green Peter Muddler

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The Green Peter Muddler is one of the most useful streamer patterns an angler can carry. It suggests a wide variety of baitfish that trout eat, is suitable for both rivers and lakes.

Mini Muddler Ginger

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Mini muddler Ginger must be buoyant and you might technically describe it as an attractor.

Mini Muddler Orange

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The Mini Muddler Orange is one of the most useful streamer patterns an angler can carry. It suggests a wide variety of baitfish that trout eat, suitable for both rivers and lakes.

Bi-Vis Tadpole

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This is a cracking Tadpole pattern for days when daphnia have badly coloured the water and trout are reluctant to feed on anything else. Its bright colour shows up well in these murky conditions.

Black & Green Tadpole

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The colour combination of the Black & Green Tadpole is always a good bet so dont leave home without one in your flybox, fish on a slow retrieve.

Black Tadpole

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Standard armoury for the stillwater angler, good searching pattern when fished on a long leader. Floating, intermedate or slime line

Bolton Wanderer

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The Bolton Wanderer is a successful stillwater lure, the colourful head being a good trigger or aiming point

Bottom Scratcher

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It took Charles Jardine many years of sitting on banksides with piles of time to come up with Bottom Scratcher. A though provoking yet self-explanatory named pattern, basically an excellent general purpose bottom searcher.

Cactus Muddler

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This can be good at any time for big Rainbow, but I find it outstanding at the start of the season, as do my customers, going by the orders I get! Sadly our dam is suffering from over-stocking, and the fish coming out look like eels, they are so thin. Two years ago, I took my brother-in-law up to Gubu Dam. It was too windy for John to fish,as he was a completely inexperienced angler.It was blowing a gale. However, I decided to find a sheltered spot on the dam, and found one right in the corner of the dam wall, where the marker for the water level is. My intention was to leave John there. I was going to carry on a further five hundred yards around the forest, where there was very deep water. Before I started off, I fixed up a rod for John, and asked him to choose a fly. He chose a red Marabou fly with a pearl cactus muddler body. I tied this on for him.I then started walking around the path. I tried to fish into the teeth of a gale, and between the wind blowing my line high and my hat being snatched off, I accomplished nothing! Just then, I saw this figure in the distance, coming towards me with his hands in the air, jumping up and down, and yelling with excitement. By this time, I recognised John, and saw that he was holding aloft a very large trout in one hand, and the rod in the other. It was so funny to see, that I dropped my rod, as my hat blew off. When he reached me, he started telling me how he caught this six and a half pound Rainbow hen fish. He said that because of the trees behind him, he threw the fly into the surface of the water, where the fly landed about three feet from the bank. As he went to pick up his rod from the bank, a large trout came from nowhere, and seized the muddler, shooting out for the overflow of the dam, about a hundred yards out.He remember what I had told him to keep his rod up at all times! He did this, and let the fish take line. He let this happen, until he could see the orange backing line getting smaller and smaller. Then he saw the fish jump out of the water, and the line became slack. So he reeled and reeled, and eventually got his line back on. He thought he had lost the fish, until he realized the fish was coming towards him. He kept on reeling. He had no net. He wondered how he was going to land such a big rainbow. So he decided that when he got it in close, he would jump in the water and throw it out onto the bank! It came in right close, and just when he was about to jump in the water, it swirled and went back out again, with the same performance as before. It jumped a few times on its way out, and he then decided to bring it in again. When it was in close, he dropped his rod, and jumped in the water, and threw the fish up onto the bank! Needless to say, the fish was well hooked. He dismantled his rod, (he had no permit and was fishing illegally anyway!) and came looking for me. He said he had never had such a thrill in his whole life. He was seventy two at the time. That fish was frozen here , and went back to Ramsgate on the Natal South coast a week later. Every visitor to the house was shown the trophy. A few months later, I was on a plane to Durban, when I sat beside the town clerk of Ramsgate.I asked him if he knew John. He said yes! And that was a lovely trout he caught! It seems that everyone by this time had heard of John's catch!

Elwyn's Woolly Bugger

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An excellent winter pattern on small stillwater, fished on a slow sinking line. In his younger days Elwyn excelled in the physical challenge of rugby and succumb to the gentler allure of fly fishing later in life

Hern's Tadpole

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If you have ever wondered whether trout actually eat tadpoles, try some yourself! Alan Pearson once told me that they did not as they tasted really bitter. And he was right. In the spring, tadpoles are quite commonly found around the margins of lakes, with trout rarely showing any interest in them. If you feel you need an accurate imitation, then this should suffice. It works well too, fished in the stalking style. Most of the fly books describe tadpoles as long multi-coloured marabou jobs. This is how they really look.

Late Tadpole

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One stage later in development than most tadpoles

Lightbulb

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The Lightbulb is certainly a lure that can been seen even in the deep murky depths where often the bigger fish lurk, its' brightness may trigger a startling response.

March Muddler

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Great store is made of the principles of blending colours of body fur and hackle to produce a broken, muted fly that provides a soft overall effect. Single colours and hard outlines are used but rarely. Generally the flies are constructed from purely natural, high quality materials,although these are sometimes blended with modern reflective materials where this adds to the attractive potential of the fly.

Mini Muddler White

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The Mini Muddler White is one of the most useful streamer patterns an angler can carry. It suggests a wide variety of baitfish that trout eat, especially sculpins. It is suitable for both rivers and lakes.

Petitjean's Tadpole (MP100 )

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MP100 is a Tadpole and when fished underwater every filament flickers with life

River Muddler

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We have a summer camp at Canim Lake, just east of 100 Mile House, BC, consequently I have the pleasure of fishing many of the excellent waters found throughout the region. Not far from our camp, the Canim River flows eastward into Mahood Lake. A hiking trail leads off the Mahood Lake Provincial campsite road and follows the Canim River back to the spectacular Canim Falls viewpoint, a scene that is well worth the walk. However, the canyon below the falls, although difficult to access, also offers river fishing for rainbow trout that can be quite good at times! The river is fast, dropping rapidly in places as it travels through a rocky course to Mahood Lake. There are pockets of water that do harbour feeding and resting spots for resident rainbow trout and here is where the river muddler shines!

RogersMuddler

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Rogerstestfly

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Soft Touch

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This fly can be used as a lure or as a nymph. Using a fast sinking line, and letting it settle, the fly will lift and either an intermittent pull will draw it down as a lure, or a steady, slow retrieve will give the impression of a nymph. It is best to tie the latter with olive marabou and green plastazote. Freddie Rice "Tying Trout Flies, Lures, Nymphs & Buzzers" 1993

Stewart's Black Marabou Muddler

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This represents a minnow I found in a fish's stomach. I started using this fly about 1980 when I first fished Gubu.

Stewarts Black Millionaire Taddy

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success. My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it.

Stewarts Black Millionaire Taddy GH

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line. My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Stewart's Fry Millionaire Taddy

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line. My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Stewart's Fry Millionaire Taddy BD

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line. My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Stewart's Millionaire Taddy Brown

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line.My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Stewart's Millionaire Taddy Dark

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line.My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Stewart's Millionaire taddy Olive

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line.My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Stewart's Millionaire Taddy Olive BH

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line. My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Stewart's Millionaire Taddy White

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success. My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. Stewart's method is 3 pulls wait 5 seconds then 3 long pulls - they have usually taken by this time, he tells me!

Stewart's Olive Marabou Muddler

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This represents a minnow I found in a fish's stomach. I started using this fly about 1980 when I first fished Gubu.

Stewarts Tan Millionaire Taddy

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line. My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Stewarts Tan Millionaire Taddy GH

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Developed for rivers of Eastern Cape. Best used an hour before dark - with sinking, intermediate or floating line. My customers in Natal have caught monsters with it. I used it in NZ in fast water rivers with great success.

Sunburst Wake Lure

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The Sunburst Wake Lure is what its name says an exciting "Wake Lure". An enticing pattern for larger preditory trout and sea trout.

White Muddler

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