[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-glossary-muddler-minnow":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"aliases":6,"body":9,"category":39,"definitionShort":40,"description":15,"disciplineTags":41,"extension":42,"meta":43,"navigation":44,"path":45,"relatedCards":46,"relatedTerms":49,"seo":54,"sourceRef":55,"stem":56,"term":5,"__hash__":57},"learn_glossary\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fmuddler-minnow.md","Muddler Minnow",[7,8],"muddler","marabou muddler",{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":35},"minimark",[12,16,32],[13,14,15],"p",{},"Don Gapen tied the first Muddler Minnow in 1937 to imitate the sculpins his clients' brook trout were eating. Nearly a century later, it's still one of the most adaptable patterns in fly fishing. The chunky spun deer-hair head pushes water and silhouettes like a baitfish; the turkey wings suggest fins; the gold tinsel body adds flash.",[13,17,18,19,23,24,27,28,31],{},"Three ways to fish it. ",[20,21,22],"strong",{},"Stripped"," like any streamer — fast pulls, short pauses, deep banks. ",[20,25,26],{},"Swung"," on a sink-tip, broadside to the current, for steelhead and big trout. ",[20,29,30],{},"Dead-drifted"," in late summer as a hopper imitation; trim the head and it floats like cork.",[13,33,34],{},"Sizes 4-12. Tan and natural for most water. The marabou variant trades the wing for a marabou tail and breathes more in slow currents.",{"title":36,"searchDepth":37,"depth":37,"links":38},"",2,[],"fly","Don Gapen's original sculpin imitation with a spun deer-hair head, mottled turkey wings, and a flashy tinsel body. Versatile — dead-drifted as a hopper, swung as a streamer, or stripped fast as fleeing baitfish.",[39],"md",{},true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fmuddler-minnow",[47,48],"streamer-basics","articulated-streamers",[50,51,52,53],"streamer","sculpin","presentation","swing",{"description":15},null,"learn\u002Fglossary\u002Fmuddler-minnow","6IcS9PXLS2epLW2D1POEAlQuYMM12VTMzdGCkBPpblg"]