Kennebago Muddler

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from the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla

Hook: #6 - 12 long hook
Thread: GSP color to match body and heavy enough to spin deer hair
Tail: mallard or wood duck flank barbs
Body: gold tinsel
Under wing: gray squirrel tail, sparse
Over sing: mallard or wood duck flank barbs
Collar: deer hair, laid back along body
Head: deer hair, spun and clipped - natural, yellow, or olive

Head cement recipe:
Goop
Xylene (epoxy thinnner)

Instructions:
Fill a quart jar half full with Xylene
Squeeze a tube of Goop into the Xylene
Shake until the Goop is dissolved; add Xylene to desired consistency

Apply with a pin or needle dipped in the liquid

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