Hi,
What’s everyone’s favorite trout wooly buggers colors besides all black. Please include tail, body and hackle color. Hook size would be nice also.
Thanks
My favorite top three are all size 10 olive buggers, one with brown hackle, one with grizzly hackle, and one with medium dun.
Jim
Tail and body of Wild Turkey body feather fluff, Hackle Black Irridesant Hen, Tied sparse and small…(Mini Bugger)
Hands down, olive. If I had to choose one size for trout I would pick 10 3xl.
The “original” ain’t bad either: black tail, olive body, black hackle.
Jungle Jive Disco yarn, from Wal-Mart…tied as a Disco Bugger.
Peter F,
Is that all olive? the reson I am asking this is because I want to try the whiting bugger packs which tie 75 each. I wanted to buy 2 colors either black and olive or black and grizzly. The strung saddle hackle I have isn’t the best for buggers. I think they are $8.00 each. Nothing is cheap when you are tieing flies, and I don’t think I’m saving money. It’s a hobby.
JKilroy,
I try not to have a ‘favorite’ on any fly or presentation, preferring to let the fish tell me which they want on any particular day.
That being said, I doubt you could go wrong with olive, black, and brown chenille for the bodies, same color for the hackles and tails, then mix them up as desired.
If you are into doing them ‘all’ that would give you 27 different 'buggers with those three variables.
Then you could add some flash to the sides and tail on another batch, maybe some pearl, red, and gold.
That will give you 81 different patterns with those variables.
Now add in a couple/three hook sizes, and you have ‘whole bunch’ by any definition.
Oh, and don’t forget that there are at least several ways to ‘porportion’ a wooly bugger. Body length, tail length, and hackle size are all ‘changeable’ on these flies to get diferrent effects.
The thing is, you really don’t want to have to carry all those diferent flies. The fish certainly don’t require it, but we all have the ones we like, and it’s hard to tell a fly fisherman that his short olive body, red flash, long brown tail with oversized olive hackle 'bugger wasn’t the ‘only’ fly that he could have caught all those trout on…HE beleives it…
Have fun!
Buddy
My all time favorite is a size 6 long shank hook with a black tail with some red krystal flash, peacock herl body or peacock ice dub, black hackle ribbed with red ultra wire for durability finished off with a nickel conehead. I also agree with Buddys post.
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jkilroy,
Dark olive marabou tail or olive ostrich tail with green flash
Dark olive chenille body
Brown hackle
8 wraps of .025 lead on hook shank under body
Hook - Mustad 9672 size 12 streamer hook
Thread - 8/0 olive
I also tie this in a reverse tie meaning tail tied in at hook bend, thread to front, tie in chenille and hackle, run bobbin to rear, wrap chenille to rear and tie off, palmer hackle to rear and tie off and then use bobbin and counter wrap thread to front and build head and whip finish/cement
That’s just my way
Warren
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My “go to” bugger would be an Olive marabou tail with Krystal Flash, Peacock body, and Brown Hackle. Almost forgot. Size 10, Mustad 79580 hooks.
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The pattern I’ve had the most success is size 10 2x shank, olive tail, olive body, grizzel hackle, fine gold wire rib, black head.
However, I’ve had a few good strikes on a black tail/hackle and yellow body version as well.
- Jeff
Favorite bugger
HOOK - size 8 3XL
Tail - Black Marabou
Body - Tiger weave black and peacock chenille with olive grizzly hackl palmered with fine gold wire
Head - black
Sometimes AI tie a light olive hackle just ahead of the body soft hackle style
2nd favorite
Tail - Red marabou with pearl krystal flash
Body - Cherry crystal chennile with red palmered over body
Head - Read thread or a black bead
Both take a bunch of fish in any water including rivers I fish
JKilroy,
I would pick the black and grizzly. Regarding the hobby aspect of fly tying, here’s one way to make it look cheap. Assuming you enjoy tying, then it is a form of recreation. RIght? I figure I tie about 4-6 flies per hour. I dont’ rush it, sometimes taking minutes to examine a fly from all sides and thinking of variations or different techniques I might try next. Even if it costs 50 cents per fly (hook, bead, a bit of dubbing, even good hackle) then the total cost is $2-$3 per hour. Show me any form of recreation that costs less than that!
jkilroy:
My favorite variation which is scary effective for me:[ul]
*Hook-TMC 5263 (3XL-2XH Down eye/Perfect bend)
*Body-Lime/Olive Hareline Speckled Chenille, (I LOVE this stuff!)
*Tail-Olive/Grizzly marabou with about 4-5 strands of olive Crystal Flash in the center, slightly longer than the tail
*Hackle-Olive/Grizzly saddle
*Head-Black or gold bead[/ul]
I do best with my buggers tied in size 10 or 8.
Has anyone had any luck with the all black #8? I’ve caught some bass and sunfish on that.
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Well gosh. Everybody knows that an all purple WB is always the best.
Olive, ollive & olive…everywhere.
Waterfox
I have a grizzly and a black dry fly neck. Can I use them for the wooly buggers. I thought you use mostly saddle feathers when tying wooly buggers.
White with grizzly hackle, white glo-bug tail with a dash of krystal flash.
Mike
Dry fly hackle makes for a stiffer collar and body over-wrap. This can be effective when the fly is weighted. The stiff hackles can scrape up som dust clouds on the bottom and attract fish. Read about it somewhere for carp fishin’. It works for everything BUT carp so far…
The softer the material the more wiggle your bugger will have.
There is a fine line between fly fishing and standing in a river waving a stick, and YOU SIR have crossed that line!