Down & Dirty Mouse (an Old-School GB Fly)
After posting that little pic yesterday with the blurb about brookies and mice, I got an email asking about mouse flies. Here’s a simple pattern—little more than a few tails and some lashed-on hair—that works. No excessive trimming, no ears, no eyes, no whiskers. Nothing wrong with eyes, ears and whiskers mind you, just that when you want to tie up a dozen mice in the evening at a lodge in the middle of nowhere, those things are pretty unimportant. So, without further ado, here’s GB’s Down & Dirty Mouse (the scans are from his old Designing Trout Flies book, illustrations are mine):
