Deer Hair Mouse Rat

Deer Hair Mouse Rat

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Tying Instructions

1. Cut a 3″ strip of chamois for the tail or use a leather shoe lace. Trim a point on the end and attach it to the bend of the hook with thread wraps. A drop of Super glue on the thread wraps will help hold it.

2. Clip a small bunch of deer hair and remove the fuzz with a comb. Stack the hair over the tail tie-in position and trim off the butts. Secure with thread wraps.

3. Repeat this process of stacking small bunches of hair mainly concentrating the hair to the top and sides of the shank up to the midpoint of the shank. Apply a lst stacked bunch below the shank to help cover the thread wraps from showing below. Trim the butts each time and secure with thread wraps.

4. Now clip another small bunch of hair and place the tips facing the rear over the other stacked hair. Loop the thread around the bunch and bring the thread over the shank once, applying tension to spin the hair around the shank. Secure with a couple of addtional wraps.

5. Trim a set of mouse ears from a piece of chamois and attach the piece on top of the spun hair bunch with some figure eight wraps.

6. Compress the hair butts with a hair packer and attach the mono eyes just in front of the hair with some figure eight wraps.Another drop of Super Glue helps.

7. Clip another bunch of deer hair but trim off the tips. Loop the thread wround the middle of the bunch and bring the thread over the shank to spin it once again. Using your fingers, push the hair back towards the rear and apply a couple of thread wraps to the front of the hair. Compress with a hair stacker.

8. Spin several more bunches of deer hair in front of the ears all the way to the eye of the hook.

9. Whip finish and trim the thread. Use a razor blade to trim the hair flat on the bottom of the hook.

10. Shape the head and trim up the sides of the body a little with your scissors. Reattach the thread and tie in some whiskers. Whip Finish and trim the thread.

Materials to Order Material, click the link
Hook	Alec Jackson Spey Fly Hook #5
Thread	Danville Black Flat Waxed Nylon
Body and Head	Natural Deer Hair
Tail and Ears	Tan Chamois
Whiskers	Black Moose
Eyes	Black Mono

Dave Whitlock

Deer Hair Mouse Rat

Dave Whitlock popularized this pattern for bass fishing in his home waters of Oklahoma. There are many variations to this fly. Some tiers, such as Chris Helm, use variations on the color of the deer hair, spin the hair, and trim for effect. Dave’s fly is much simpler yet still effective. The body of the mouse uses the hair tips with a hair stacking method whereas the head utilizes a spinning technique. Under weedy conditions, Dave will also put on a monofilament weedguard by attaching the mono to the bend of the hook and fastening it to just behind the eye after the mouse body has been completed.

Some will use foam for the tail and ears, since they float much better. Calm, low light conditions are good times for this pattern, particularly on the East Fork Carson. Cast to the far bank and slow strip the pattern back, the resident Browns go crazy! It also works well in stillwaters. I’ve had good luck with the pattern in the evenings at Convict Lake.