FTF Fly Challenge: Wooly Buggers

[jacktjl 0]

Here's another one to add to the list.

 

 

Dressing/recipe is:

 

Thread: Bennichi's 12/0 Black

 

Hook: Orvis VMC 8529 #10 ( 1X long nymph )

 

Tail: Clump of picric acid dyed pine squirrel belly hair surrounded by grey squirrel body hair

 

Body: About ten wraps of 0.015 lead wire, over that is a dubbing loop of back, side, and belly pine squirrel mixed & dyed in picric acid, over this a palmered cree hackle dyed in picric that has one side stripped, and ribbed over that with fine copper wire for strength .

 

Regards,

Mark

Nice fly I think I need to go squirrel hunting.

 

[agn54 0]

Magnum Wooly Buggar:

Long shank streamer hook, pictured is a Mustad 34011 #1

Neck hackles splayed, maroon grizzley & black pictured

Marabou plumes, thin stemmed, palmered on hook. pictured a red and two blacks

Rubber or silicone legs, four on each side in the front and back. Pictured Sili legs black with red tip.

Medium or large chenine or antron chenille overwrapped with neck hackle, pictured black for both.

Weedguard appropriate for hook size.

 

I've caught many bass and redfish on this pattern in color variations from this to white/grey, chartreuse/black, purple/black, brown/orange, yellow/black.

 

 

 

That is one nice looking fly. It looks like it would slay the reds around the oyster bars.

[carlp5351 0]

This is one my favorite varations of a Wooly Bugger

 

 

[Kirk Dietrich 0]

Kirk,

 

That has to be one of the most awsome redfish flies I have ever seen...looks like it lands soft on happy tailers.

 

Panama, it pushes a lot of water but once the marabou is saturated, it kind of plops down on the water. Fortunately we don't have overly skittish redfish when it comes to fly presentation like ya'll do. I think a synthetic hair loop dubbed around the shank in place of the marabou would give a softer entry since synthetics like EP fibers and Congo hair shed water on one backcast. I'll have to try that, thanks for gettin me thinking.

 

Thanks,

Kirk

[Habanero 0]

Trying new twist and came up with this:

 

Hook: TMC 5263 size 10

Tail: Ostrich Hearl, Crystal Flash

Body: Dubbing Loop with Cream Angora Goat (Cream)

Dubbing Loop with Baby Legs Alive (Grey) (make sure and pick out Angora while wrapping this over the top of it)

Collar: Mallard Flank Wood Duck (Gold)

SLF Dark Stone Dubbing

 

[learnin to fly 0]

My first ever Bugger. Still looks like a jig to me but I'm getting this fly tying figured out!

Size 10 hook

Tail: Chartreuse/Olive Marabou & Natural Mallard Flank w/Root Beer Flash

Body: Catalpa Worm Chenille w/ black saddle hackle

[oatka 0]

Tied up a few tonight. Here's one I'm calling Bead Back Bugger.

 

Tail - Brown Marabou

Flash - Root beer crystal flash

Beads - Threaded on a wire

Body - Flash back material

Hackle - Something brown

 

Tie in the tail and the flash. Then tie down the flash and hackle. Then tie in the beads that are on the wire. Wrap the flash, then tie the beads on top, and wrap the hackle between the beads.

 

Pretty strange fly I know, but I had to give it a try once I got the idea.

 

[troutguy 0]

 

 

 

Tail: Black marabou

Body: Black wool

Overbody: Peacock herl

Hackle: Gray Ostrich or Emu

Weight: Dental lead foil

 

 

This works really well for trout and smallmouth. The gray hackle gives a minnow or helgramite look. Large Emu or ostrich moves like marabou but holds shape like hackle.

[smokinprice 0]

This is one I tied up for the gills and smallies this year. It worked like a charm.

 

Tail: Brown Marabou

Body: Orange Chenille

Legs: Rootbeer Hareline Buggy Legs

Hackle: Whiting Farms Bugger Pack hackle in brown

Weight: ten wraps of size .010 lead and a small cone head

 

[Hillbillyredear 0]

That is a cool Bugger Pattern I like it

 

 

Tied up a few tonight. Here's one I'm calling Bead Back Bugger.

 

Tail - Brown Marabou

Flash - Root beer crystal flash

Beads - Threaded on a wire

Body - Flash back material

Hackle - Something brown

 

Tie in the tail and the flash. Then tie down the flash and hackle. Then tie in the beads that are on the wire. Wrap the flash, then tie the beads on top, and wrap the hackle between the beads.

 

Pretty strange fly I know, but I had to give it a try once I got the idea.

 

 

[smokinprice 0]

Interesting buggers out there

[Bryan Wright 0]

This is one I made it has sequens on the the front to form a head that should push some water and give this thing some wild movement.

 

[Panama Red 0]

I really like the sequen idea, kind of like the heads they use on tube flys...might have to try that one for salt water

 

 

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

Hook: Dai-Riki #700 Size 4

Head: Nickel Cone

Tail: Fl. Orange marabou and Chartruese crystal flash

Body: Fl. Orange and Chartruese chenille

Hackle: Black Schlappen

 

I call this one the Sparkle Tiger I tied this one for Bass this Summer worked really well in Dark water and in cover

[ThaSandman 0]

Well, mine is not really anything special, but man does it catch fish....

 

Hook: TMC 5263 size 8

Thread: Olive 8/0

Tail: Olive Marabou and Black Flashabou

Body: Olive crystal chenille and Orange Ice Dubbing

(wrap 2/3 body with chenille, wrap with thread for about 1/4", dub, then continue chenille)

Hackle: Olive Saddle hackle