Do you Rib your wolly buggers?

[iso18 0]

just wandering

shane

[FujiwaraTFD 0]

just wandering

shane

I do. It deffinitely increases the durability.

[crappie 0]

No. I have been doing woven bodies lately for my buggers.

 

crappie

[planettrout 0]

Generally, I do for longetivity. I use heavy thread, wire and lately, Shane Stalcups' Glitter Rib...

 

Pt/TB

 

[tidewaterfly 0]

I use copper wire on the weighted ones, and cheap mono on the unweighted ones.

[JSzymczyk 0]

I have not ribbed through a woolly bugger or woolly worm in almost 30 years. For trout of all kinds, salmon of many kinds, bass of all kinds, panfish of all sorts, and everything else I've caught on them, I have VERY rarely had a broken hackle. I normally use a chenille body and wrap the hackle tight. It is well protected as-is. I honestly can not remember the last time I had a broken hackle. If you look through my fly boxes, you will find a LOT of woolly buggers, I fish them all the time.

 

That's just me, and what has worked in my experience.

[coulee fishing 0]

No rib here.

Very seldom do I have a hackle break.

[Cole 0]

For me it really depends. Sometimes I do, sometimes I dont.

[Brian Brown75 0]

I never do i also fish buggers a TON

[smallieFanatic 0]

Nope never have.

 

[smokinprice 0]

I hate to admit this but the only time my buggers gave ribs was when I would buy them like that.

[Bob Cunningham 0]

Interesting, and good thread. I usually do rib, but I think I would like to remove that step and try hackle only, or worse case scenario heavy thread if I felt the need on that particular fly application.

[RoyalWulff 0]

I do not rib my buggers either. For many reasons, I do not find it make a difference for fishing. I have never had a hackle break, and if I do I will just toss on another one from my box, then retie it when i get home. Also I do not like the look of the ribbing. However I use to rib my buggers with tinsel because I thought the flash would be nice. I am slowing letting the trees take those off of me.

 

I do not feel the need to put an extra step in the tying process even though it only takes 10 seconds.

 

 

[Al Beatty 0]

Hi Group,

 

Gretchen and I tie all of our bugger (and many other patterns) backward thus ending up at the end of the shank where all the materials get tied off. The last thing we do is wrap the tying thread forward over the body then apply a whip-finish at the hook eye. So yes, we end up ribbing all of our buggers (so to speak) with the tying thread. Take care & ...

 

Tight Lines - Al Beatty

www.btsflyfishing.com

[DCBuckeyeguy77 0]

I actually dont even add the hackle a lot of times. I usually just use crystal chenille, and it seems like i catch more fish without it.