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Squirrel and Herl Bugger

Insect Species Icon None
Difficulty Icon Easy - 3-5 Min
Water Category Icon Coldwater, Warmwater

Tying Video

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Tying Recipe
  • Hook: Straight shank, down eye streamer hook
  • Bead: Optional Conehead or Beadhead
  • Thread: UTC 140 Denier
  • Body: Peacock Herl
  • Tail/Top of Body: Pine Squirrel Zonker Strip
  • Hackle: Wooly Bugger Barred Grizzly Hackle
  • Beadhead: You can put a tungsten or brass beadhead or conehead on this fly easily
  • Body: Peacock Colored Dubbing

The main variations of this pattern are in colors.  Olive, Brown, Black and Rust are my favorites.  You can substitute a saltwater or steelhead hook to make it fishable for those types of waters as well.

A quick and easy tie that is just a bit different than a standard wooly bugger. It’s like a wooly bugger and a slumpbuster spent the night in a fly box next to eachother and made this fly as a result of too many martinis. When fish are picky or you’re fishing pressured waters, it can really pay to have some different looking flies. Diversity overcomes pressured waters most days and this fly works well in these situations.

When fish are picky or you’re fishing pressured waters, it can really pay to have some different looking flies.  Diversity overcomes pressured waters most days and this fly works well in these situations.

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