The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Easy - 5-7 Min
Coldwater, Warmwater
The wooly bugger is a great pattern that can be changed up in many ways to get the exact fly that you’re looking for. The endless color and material options are only a start for this great fly. For a skinnier fly profile, consider using floss for the body, wrapped with a smaller fibered feather like dry fly hackle. If you’re fishing this fly in primarily still waters, consider using schlappen, which has softer fibers that will move in the water easier. Using a separate feather for the collar makes a great fly for faster waters that will create a larger wake behind it. Play around with it and have fun!
This fly can be fished anywhere with any style of fishing and catch fish. The proportions and movement from this fly just triggers fish into eating even if they don’t want to. With this fly being on the smaller side of basic streamers and the range of colors it can be tied in, this is one that will imitate anything floating through the water column. This fly is an easy tie, and with the jig hook and slotted tungsten bead, this is one that will stay on the end of your line and not on the bottom of that log jam in the middle of your favorite hole.
There is almost no wrong way to fish a wooly bugger, and probably even less ways for the euro bugger. The size of the fly allows it to imitate almost anything that fish will eat allowing the angler to present the fly in a multitude of ways. Tie it in smaller sizes from #14-#8 and use it as your lead fly in your bobber nymph rig, or your point fly on a euro nymph rig for a large protein packed meal that any fish is looking for. Use it as a streamer in any size and strip it or swing it to get explosive reaction strikes from any freshwater species of fish, and probably even a few saltwater fish as well!
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