First, most sincere apologies if this should be in the Fly Tying forum, I debated for a while, smoked a cigarette, debated some more, and then the coin came up tails.

I've been trying to figure a way to tell the difference between two flies of the same pattern where one is weighted and one is not, or one is weighted more heavily than the other.

For instance, a black wooly bugger with no weighting doesn't really look any different than a black wooly bugger with a lead underwrap.

Since I'm a nooB, I thought you more experienced guys (and gals, never forget the gals) might have come up with something to handle this.

Thanks in advance,

MZR