I snuck out for lunch today and did a few firsts. I did what I would call my first real ?moving water? fly fishing. I had to do a little mending and such (not as important because I wasn?t dead drifting anything). I also used a wolly bugger for the first time. Wow. In about 45 minutes, I caught 5 bass from 6-10 inches, and two more politely unhooked themselves with some jumps. I went to the big box last night and got a few buggers and a couple of leeches. Wow, wow, wow. I have always read very good things about them, but being the dumb butt that I am, it has taken me this long to get some. :oops: My bad!
Plus, I didn?t fall in the river, and I didn?t even lose a new fly in the trees, shrubs, or rocks. All I all, a very good lunch hour!
Austin: 70 degrees, light breeze, a few clouds… I knew there was a reason I lived here!
Alan
neat time you had on the water! I know that a handfull of wooley buggers are always in my fly boxes wherever I go fishing.
shouldn’t ever leave home without 'em, especially if you’re going fishing! 
Although I can’t claim much expertise fishing them in streams, Longhorn, I love 'em for lakes up here – and so do the panfish, bass, and, fished low and slow, even channel cats. My fly box has several colors and sizes, both regular and beadhead.
Wow! :shock: 70* 8) I AM jealous! :roll:
…lee s. 
It’s hard to beat woolly buggers in a variety of colors, sizes, and weights. I always have buggers with me when I’m fishing. I have probably caught more big fish on the bugger than anything else.
Hey Longhorn, they even work for us Aggies in East Texas ponds!
From what I have generally read, it seems they will catch anything, anytime, anywhere! Why oh why did I wait this long to get some!! 
But now I have some, so watch out anything with gills!! 
Longhorn, Nice to see you city guys are doing what us country guys have been doing for a long time. Yep buggers work well, but there are many other pattern flies that work as good or better on our TX. waters. Try a Llano Bug for Guads. and bass, mini minnow patterns in white and gray with flashabou on the Colorado for both Whites and Crappies in the spring. Get out of that dang city and breath some clean air on some of our river systems. I ain’t to par shale to city living.
Interesting posts!
My wife,son, and I fish on the Blanco not too far from Wimberley, and I have never had any luck with Woolies. The fish we catch there are Guadalupe Bass/smallmouth hybrids and sunfish, although we often see catfish and carp, occasionally the stray gar, but have never hooked one of the latter 3–I understand they are not prone to take a fly.
Maybe I’m not fishing the Woolies correctly or just need to be more persistent–will give 'em a try again.
Uh, er, what are Llano Bugs?
Gretest “fly” ever… so lifelike in the water, and imitates so many things… easy to tie… and a real killer. Love it.
Yo, t-sip, the Wooly Booger is FABULOUS for Texas! You can catch nearly and perhaps all fresh water species we have on this versitle bait.
Gig’em
Mark Fairchild
ggh, shoot yes you can catch carp, catfish, and gar on the fly. For gar a easy fly is about 7" peice of un-braded nylon rope with no hook tied to your 20 lb test tippet. No hook and yellow or red rope work great.
hobo: Could ya elaborate or show pic of your gar setup? I am not trying to be dense, just have rushed out thinking I know what someone meant only to get there and figure I have no clue how to lash this up. ‘No Hook’, do they get intangled in the nylon rope?
Pic if possible!
Thanks and Gig’em
Mark
Yes, their teeth get tangled in the rope. I’ve never fished for them but I understand that they’re so bony that setting the hook on a gar is a rarity, so its best to do away with the hook altogether.
Looks like there are a few Aggies lurking about in here. My wife is a grad student at A&M. As for me, I go to Blinn since my grades had recover from a serious case a trout-itis. If we hadn’t pack up and moved South any faster I might have wound up a full fledged trout bum. :oops:
Just read a quote yesterday from fish biologist and fly fisher Bob Sousa that more fish are taken on a wooley bugger than all other flies combined. While I don’t know if that is 100% accurate its probagbly not far off.
jed
We got into a nest of rock bass and pulled out 35 of them in short order with an olive wolley bugger.
Yup. Me too. “Never leave home without it” !
MY thoughts on the wooley bugger: Being a very recent convert to flyfishing I used to do a lot of spinner rod/reel fishing, using a LOT of rooster tail lures. To me fishing a wolley bugger is similar to rooster tail fishing(without the spinner blade).
Always have a few in the smaller beadhead sizes of 12 and 14 in various colors.
Randy Knapp