In this week’s episode of Tying Tuesdays, watch as Max ties the Big Eyed Semperfli Mouse! This Sempermouse has many rigorous hours of R&D that went into its creation. Steve (Fellow AvidMax Fly Guru) and I have been working on this fly for over a year and are happy to finally share it. Thank you to Semperfli for providing us with such a cool material to utilize! Semperfli Wabbit is a super unique material that performs great and lasts fish after fish. It has excellent movement, dries/sheds water very quickly, and is super tyer friendly. In order to get this fly to have the right action and floatability, the 6mm foam is very necessary. Using anything less will lead to a scuba diving mouse pattern (which also works on the right rivers), which does not allow the mouse to swim frantically on the surface.
Prefer to read? Step-by-step write-up on the AvidMax blog.
Big Eyed Semperfli Mouse recipe
- HookDaiichi 2557 Size 4
- BodySemperfli Wabbit
- Front Hook/ShankFirehole 811 Size 2
- Head6mm Foam
- TailSemperfli Chennile
- AdhesiveZap-a-Gap
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