Yeagerburger SBS

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Mike Yeager’s bugger variation; a damsel/dragonfly imitation for Southwestern stillwaters. He prefers to tie his flies unweighted, using a sinking line to get them down to where the fishes live. These are for Jim - enjoy.

hook - Mustad 9672 #8
thread - UTC 140 dark olive
tail - marabou black
body - chenille dark olive
hackle - grizzly saddle

mash barb, start thread, wrap back to bend

measure (shank length) a clump of marabou; tie in

strip the end off chenille; tie in

prep hackle, tie in by butt

take a turn of chenille behind hackle, the wrap forward to head

wrap hackle forward, tie off, trim, whip, SHHAN

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A little different take - hackle is wrapped front to back and re-enforced with a wire rib.

everything to this point is the same, with the addition of the wire (tied in at the beginning)

move the thread to the head and tie in hackle

wrap chenille forward; tie off/trim

wrap hackle to the back; capture tip with wire, spiral rib forward through the hackle

helicopter end, whip, SHHAN

Regards,
Scott

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Good looking Scott. My kind of fly, big and bushy! I see some different colors in my future. like rusty brown and some of the bazillion cheap grizzle hackles I have.
Mike

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Well done Scott. Very well done. tks
Jim

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nice, what type of chenille is that? very hairy…

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I have used this pattern for quite a few years with good success on trout and warm water fish. Usually in size 6 to 10 in various colors.

Thanks for sharing

Tim

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Old (I’m talking Bush 1/Clinton 1st term timeframe) stock from Orvis. It’s hairy because I steamed it - stuff had been on the card so long it was flat on 2 sides.

Regards,
Scott

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Well done as always, Scott! :smiley:
What makes a Yeagerburger different from a standard Woolly Bugger? Is it the use of grizzly hackle…or this particular color scheme…or something else?

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More importantly, is it a Yeagerburger or a Yeagerbugger?

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Dave,

Beats me; olive/grizzly Buggers have been around for a while and I always just called them olive/grizzly buggers.

Steven,

I’m holding Mike Yeager’s book, Flies of the Southwest, in my hands and he calls it a Yeagerburger. No explanation as to the name.

Regards,
Scott

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The Yeagerburger is my go to fly. I have caught Catfish, Crappie, Bluegill, Apache trout, and Rainbow trout with it. I was surprised at the catfish. Not fishing for them but after a couple of crappie…(was targeting bass) started catching catfish one after the other…like they were beating the crappie to the fly! Anyway a friend has caught bass, striper and pike with this fly.
just fyi