{"id":2672,"date":"2015-04-01T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:24:14","slug":"muddler-zonker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2015\/04\/muddler-zonker\/","title":{"rendered":"Muddler + Zonker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2669\" src=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler1-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"2015.04.01.dryfly.me.zmuddler1\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler1-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><strong>Hook<\/strong>: TMC811S #4<br \/>\n<strong>Thread<\/strong>: UNI 6\/0 Black<br \/>\n<strong>Tail<\/strong>: Rabbit Zonker<br \/>\n<strong>Body<\/strong>: A.Jensen Saltwater Dub ll White<br \/>\n<strong>Head<\/strong>: Roe<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this winter I got a Roe skin, and before that some Rabbit skins, and since it is seatrout season start around these parts of the world I thought I would tie up some muddler\/zonker variants to bring with me.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I&#8217;ve tied up anything muddler-like for seatrout, but if you have the basics of spinning hair this is not very hard to do. I chose the TMC811S since with its\u00a0short shank and very durable design (I really like this hook!), I also tied in some rubber legs on some variants to see how they will behave and look in the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2668\" src=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler2-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"2015.04.01.dryfly.me.zmuddler2\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler2-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>Some shorter rubber legs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2667\" src=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler3-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"2015.04.01.dryfly.me.zmuddler3\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler3-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler3-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>They are not small, but neither are they super-big, so my #6 will have no problem swinging these over easter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0893.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2670\" src=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0893-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0893\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0893-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0893-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>I\u00a0had to go down to the city and get some smaller versions of this hook and tie up some on the 811S\u00a0#8. This have some\u00a0added lead to bring it down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2671\" src=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler4-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2015.04.01.dryfly.me.zmuddler4\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler4-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015.04.01.dryfly.me_.zmuddler4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hook: TMC811S #4 Thread: UNI 6\/0 Black Tail: Rabbit Zonker Body: A.Jensen Saltwater Dub ll White Head: Roe Earlier this winter I got a Roe skin, and before that some Rabbit skins, and since it is seatrout season start around<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,44],"tags":[138,419,127,114,25,429,145],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salt","category-streamer","tag-811s","tag-muddler","tag-rubber","tag-seatrout","tag-tmc","tag-uni","tag-zonker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}