Part 1 – The Tools
A quick primer on the tools you’ll need if you want to start tying deer hair bugs for bass, pike and other predators. This video covers thread, essential tools and some optional extras. GSP Thread, heavy duty scissors, double edged razor blades, hair packers, leg pullers hair stackers, hot tip and the bend-a-blade.
Created by Hans Weilenmann, and inspired by Clark Reid’s “Clark’s Cicada“, the C-13, or Cicada 13, is a simple cicada pattern that has the characteristics to imitate this insect. It combines the the typical plop when it lands with good buoyancy provided by the deer hair.
Most tying problems stem from two things:
Failure to properly plan the fly, and not knowing how to work with deer hair.
Tying the Muddler Minnow. Source: InTheRiffle.com
How to spin deer hair
First designed to imitate a small bottom-dwelling fish, Muddler Minnows are now tied as general attractor patterns and to imitate anything from caddis flies to grasshoppers.