rubber bugger????

[spinfly 0]

Anyone know how the body is tied on the rubber bugger (like the Orvis fly)????????

thanks

[jjhaag 0]

I do mine with micro rubber legs in a dubbing loop as the palmered hackle over a chenille body. Not sure if that's the way Orvis ties them, but seems to work pretty well.

 

I usually prep a batch by pre-rigging the rubber legs as wire brushes, with maybe 28ga wire as the base instead of the tying thread. Usually just stick the bodkin in the vice, tie the wire down over itself to form the loop, and do as I would normally for a dubbing loop (except using the rubber legs). As long as the wire is large enough, they won't come unravelled because of the spring in the legs.

 

You could also put dubbing in the loop as you're sticking in the legs, and skip the chenille body.

 

-Josh