Mark,

The mushmouth is a great fly, but when tied in its original style it's more of a peanut bunker imitation. Jamie Boyle came up with a variation of the mushouth that I think Skok calls the whitebait mushy (or something like that). Good fly. So is a surf candy. Fish eat them as sand eels and other bait.

But anyway, to answer your pattern question here's an easy to tie and durable one that was chomped on a lot this year.:

Barbell eyes tied in Clouser style
1 grizzly hackle tied in on each side
A tiny bit of flash
Belly of white yak hair
Olive & pink yak hair back
You can add in a single flashabou side stripe on each side
Definately epoxy some eyes on the barbell

In esssense, a Clouser tied with yak hair.

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