Am I crazy to use these colors on this Woolly Bugger or is all fair? Also any constructive criticism is welcome.
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Am I crazy to use these colors on this Woolly Bugger or is all fair? Also any constructive criticism is welcome.
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No those colors are fine if they catch fish---test one out at your local pond. I tie olive ,olive and more all olive BILL
looks like a killer too me!
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Looks good to me. I tie a similar one, but swap the colours. Yellow body and tail with black hackle and that catches fish so there's nothing wrong with the colour combo. Yours should work just as well, if not better.
- Jeff
Thanks all I just kind of feeling my way along here. I actually started tying before I even had a fly rod and reel. I bought the cheap one just to try out and now am going to upgrade soon.
I live in the sticks with no real shop or anything like that and not a lot of fly fishing here on Toledo Bend, but I want to get after it some and am planning on a good spring time for the crappie and bream with a few LMB thrown in.
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I think that is a very good looking fly and what I am going to offer is not criticism, but, another way to tie it that maybe you should try. It is called "tying in reverse" and it is the way I tie just about all my buggers. I like to tie in reverse because I think it is easier to palmer the hackle and to rib it for reinforcement.
After you tie in the tail run your thread back to behind the hook eye and there is where you will tie in your chenille and your hackle feather. After they are tied in, run your thread back to the tail tie in point. Then you wrap your chenille to the rear and tie it off with a couple wraps of your thread and snip off the excess. Then palmer your hackle feather to the rear and tie it off and snip off the excess. You will then be able to take your thread and while moving it back and forth you can palmer it through the palmered hackle back to the front where you can wrap a small head, whip finish and apply SH or head cement. This method gives you a small head on the fly and I think makes palmering the hackle easier. It is for me anyway. You will need to try and use the same color thread as the body.
Remember to remove some of the chenille on the end to expose the inner thread to tie it in with. This will eliminate the large hump where you start the chenille. You tie the hackle feather in by the base of the hackle and not the tip. This will put the longer hackles up front and smaller ones to the rear. If you think about it, you are tying the chenille and hackle in at the front and wrapping them to the rear by wrapping away from you and then when you bring the thread forward, you will still be wrapping away from you but it will be going on in a counter wrap which traps the hackle and makes the fly more durable.
Give this a try and see what you think. This is what I love about fly tying, there is no right way or wrong way.
great job!!!!! dont worry about what anyone says about it
I have heard of tying it in reverse, but dosent the copper wire rib I put in hold the hackle in a d keep it some what protected?Quote:
Originally Posted by WarrenP
If you do it in reverse when do you put in the wire? DO you tie it in reverse as well?
I find it very difficult to keep the copper wire rib from trapping the hackle when I try to counter wrap it in, so, I tie in reverse and I do not use any copper wire to reinforce the fly. The tying thread that you bring forward from the rear is the reinforcing material. The tying thread takes the place of the wire rib. I find it easier to work the tying thread around the hackles and that is what I like most about tying in reverse.
This is just my way of tying the bugger and please do not think your way is incorrect. I just thought you might want to try it. With reverse tying I find the hackle easier to palmer and using the thread instead of wire for reinforcing works better for me plus the thread does not smash down the chenille like wire does.
Please understand that I am just explaining how I tie a bugger and thought you might be interested in another way.
Your bugger looks, as I stated, very well tied and it looks great!
Waren is making a wolly buger too difficult--tie the material in the back even the wire or reinforcing thread that he mentioned and dont worry about the size of the head. And you mentioned copper wire---why are you using that on a wollybuger-you dont need it. Its supposed to reinforce the fly but I have taught hundreds how to tie this fly,never used wire and the old way has caught lots of fish If you want the wire or thread you should wrap from the back to the eye in the reverse direction as you did the chenille and hackle. BILL