What are your typical or most productive sizes of Woolly Bugger and its variants? And color combinations?
I appreciate your comments.
Basic Size of Woolly Bugger
What are your typical or most productive sizes of Woolly Bugger and its variants? And color combinations?
I appreciate your comments.
10 and 12
Olive, Black, White, Tan, Brown
10 and 12 for me too. My best colors seem to be white and black. I tie the white with a little bit of pearl or white flash material into the tail. Be careful not to make the tails to long. It may cause the fish to hit short or just hit the tail ant not the whole fly.
Ben
Not my confidence fly. When I fish them I fish them large, 4 to 6 inches long.
White hackle and marabou w/pearl braid body
Brown Hackle and burnt orange marabou w/copper/brown chenille body.
Yellow Hackle and marabou, white chenille body.
Black Hackle and marabou, black chennile body.
Olive Hackle and Olive marabou, varigated black and olive chenille body.
Olive Hackle, burnt orange marabou, and varigated orange and olive body.
Gosh,
Woolybuggers....where to start?!
We use a LOT of'em. Like said #12 - #10's are real handy for troutoids and BG's and stuff. We do #6 - #4's too,for steelheads and LM's at least. The dark colors and browns and olives generally get tossed and puppeteered to mimick bugs, damsels etc., in the water. The white w/pearly cactus chennile and flashy tails generally gets used to mimmick baitfish of some sort. They seem well accepted where shad are present. Sometimes our WB's get concocted with craw colors, and where and how you present them then, can make them quite effective on things eating crawdads.
GRAND bug. VERY versitile. Sometimes applying a BH can be very useful too. Easy to tie. Buggers and rotary vises were made for each other.
....lee s.
I like 10's and 12's in Black,olive and purple. The first time I caught a Steelhead in the Menomonee river below Miller Park. Yes except for the car parts, shopping carts, and occasional oil slick this has become a fairly decent urban fishery. I was using a yellow on yellow WB. With the fly still in the fishes jaw a head to toe LL Beaner told me "can't catch Steelhead on Yellow". I guess myself and the fish were just to dumb to know better.Hmmmmmmmmm.
I only use size #4 and #6. On a 4X long hook. I use the Daiichi 2220.
[This message has been edited by Pats Man (edited 28 March 2005).]
black
brown body with olive tail
size 12 first, then 10, then 8
[This message has been edited by Gardenfish (edited 28 March 2005).]
black
brown body with olive tail
if nothing is working I tie on a black bugger
I myself use WB in sizes 8 streamer hook all the way down to a size 18 nympth hook. It just depends on what I am fishing for.
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