I'm still a newbie. To palmer my first few woolly buggers I've been using the larger hackles on the same half-capes I use for dry flies. I feel like this is the wrong hackle to use, considering that my buggers are showing a tendency to float, despite their lead-wrapped shanks. What hackle do I want to use for buggers? The cheaper "strung saddle hackle" that usually sells for three or four bucks apiece?

I'm gonna have to hold on to these ridiculous early flies of mine. They look almost--what's the word?--experimental. I imagine I'll get a real kick out of them a few years down the road.

Dave