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.
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black
brown body with olive tail
size 12 first, then 10, then 8
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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.
Usually use size 12 and most productive color at the present time is olive. Olive marabou tail with olive hackle twisted with a dubbed olive squirrel hair body. Twisting the feather with the dubbed body eliminates the use of wire ribbing to protect the feather from being cut by the fish.
Warren
Size 4-12 (large range) and usually in black, olive, or white. Occasionally a olive black braid.
Of course, it is the shank length that may be more important than the size of the gap.
I often use a 4 on a 2xl hook. This gives you a bigger gap relative to the shank length. The reason is that early in the season I am fishing very heavy current. I think the extra hook gap helps maintain hookups in heavy water.
8 2x black…
Spelling and Grammar not subject to judgement… 
Mustads 9672 in sizes 4-10 dubbed with ice dubbing and always red wire as a rib just a quirk of mine.
Seege
I like various sizes of woolly buggers though all semm to work. I Use size 8 - 12 in the Lower Madison and catch fish, have used larger and dont seem to see any difference that a larger bugger makes. I also dont have to use as heavy a rod when casting the smaller buggers so that is an added benefit (unless the wind is screaming like it often is out this way in which way I use a heavier rod). I can easily cast a 12 with my 4 wt where as casting as a 4 or a 6 with it makes for some good entertainment). When it comes to high alpine lakes I usually use a size 12 or occasionally a 14. Almost all of my buggers have a tungsten beadhead since if I decide to go to Yellowstone Park I cant use lead. If I need a little extra weight I use lead free wire. As for colors, I find that orange bodies with grizzly hackle, and sparkly chenille with grizzly also works well. A lot of my buggers are tied in strange colors and I dont see any difference in how they produce, maybe because fish see the usual browns, blacks and olives so much around here. That doesnt mean that those colors dont produce however, I just like to be different. I believe that in the end it comes down to what sizes and colors you think will best produce for you. Then again thats just my two cents.
Take care everyone and cya around. Mark
Mostly use size 8 and 10. Olive and Black with a little green krystal flash would the main color, but always have others.
I tie up anything from a 1.0 for steelhead to a 12 for trout, it just depends where I am fishing and what for.
Jon
a #12 wooly with chartreuse chenile and olive hackle, and a very short clump of red marabou for a tail has been very productive for me in rivers, lakes, and ponds for crappie, bass, and blue gills. I’ve never caught a trout on one, but that’s probably because I do more warm water fishing and I tend to go to more “specialty” flies when I do go after trout,
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