by Doug McKnight<\/strong><\/p>\n The permit curse had haunted me for more than a decade, and all I had to show for it was a pile of shots and memories of a mid 30-pounder that I lost after a 40-minute battle.<\/p>\n This all changed in 2009 on a DIY trip to Honduras. I hit the vise hard before the trip with great anticipation, and with the Bauer flats crab as a basic template, the effort spawned the Dangermuffin Crab.<\/p>\n The trip produced a pair of permit in the mid teens that I caught while wading. Since then, this crab has been sealing the deal all over the Caribbean, often in jaw-dropping fashion.<\/p>\n In place of the standard wool, I stumbled into a happy accident of mixing rabbit fur and deer hair on those first few Dangermuffins that I tied. Between these two readily available materials, the sky\u2019s the limit when coming up with different color combinations to match any type of crab you would ever want. When Pat Cohen came out with his super-realistic crab claws cut out of synthetic suede, I added them onto the DM. I was sold after seeing what they did on the water.<\/p>\n I typically tie these from No. 2 to 8 in a variety of colors, with mottled white (shown here), olive, tan, and brown covering most occasions. I\u2019m not really sold on magic flies for permit fishing.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve seen some non-typical permit behavior when the DM is presented. Tied in smaller sizes, it\u2019s also a killer bonefish fly for big, picky fish.<\/p>\n Hook: Umpqua X506H- #2-8<\/p>\n Thread: Flat waxed nylon white<\/p>\n Weight: .025 lead wire and small dumbbell eyes for a #4 hook<\/p>\n Shell:\u00a0 White rabbit fur, bleached, and golden brown deer body hair, roughly mixed<\/p>\n Legs\/eyes: White micro ultra chenille (legs), tan for eyes<\/p>\n Claws: Pat Cohen crab claws (extra small for #4)<\/p>\n Belly: Single layer of cream furry foam<\/p>\n Adhesives: Zap a Gap for lead wire and eyes, Zap Goo for crab assembly<\/p>\n Markers: tan and orange permanent markers<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Steps:<\/p>\n Tying a Dangermuffin Crab by Doug McKnight The permit curse had haunted me for more than a decade, and all I had to show for it was a pile…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13211,"featured_media":8299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3049,29],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2214,765,528,2210,2213,766,1215,1189],"class_list":{"0":"post-8297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fly-tying","8":"category-saltwater-fly-fishing","9":"category-tail-fly-fishing-magazine"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/65894645650__26BB795F-0331-4767-9E21-5A91218FFA65-copy-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8301,"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions\/8301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tying](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tailflyfishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4109-copy-1.jpg?resize=537%2C358\")
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