Wolly Bugger Techniques

[beaverPond]

Any advice about how to fish wolly buggers for stream trout would be appreciated. For example....

Do you use a strike indicator?

Does it need to dead drift?

How do you strip it in? Small strips or long ones?

Is it immitating a bait fish, a dragonfly nymph, or a crawfish?

Is black better than olive? If so why?

When should you use one?

I feel like a bum asking all these questions here. I appreciate all the answers I have been getting. Sero, you especially rock for your pupa info.

bp

[marzrw]

All of your questions...Answered your questions...All of the above work...Everything depends on the time of year..The water temp...The water level..And the trout activity...In other words....All of the above work..One small trick that Sero told me was to tie off the bend of the bugger a piece of tippet material and a nymph or wetfly..

You absolutely will not believe the number of trout that will hit the dropper...Try it...

[serotonin]

I feel like a bum asking all these questions here.

bP,
Most of your questions are so precise that you've almost answered them Yourself!
As marzrw indicated, every day is a little different, and some days just ain't.
Spend time on the water. The Trout and the Bugs will tell you what to Do.


Hugh said it well in another thread:

... you are observant enough and thats whats needed. Hugh

...and Exactly when you've got it figured out... They'll fool you.

[serotonin]

bP,
try Searching thru the Vaults here. I think there's some good Bugger info in there.

Sero, you especially rock for your pupa info.
bp

Thanks alot.
That's one helluva nice thing to say to someone...
I rock for my pupa info.

[marzrw]

PS...I took my wife flyfishing for the first time tonite...I was lazy...One of my rods had already had a woolly bugger tied on it with a dropper wet fly...

Well....

She caught her two trout on the dropper off of the bugger as Sero had told me a year ago...

I am sold... Are you?

[serotonin]

Marzrw... I'm really happy that that rig worked out for your wife.
I'm sure you placed her in a god spot.
It is a special occasion when someone catches a Trout..
Especially their first (and second) on a fly.
Brookies, Browns, or Rainbows...?

I am sold... Are you?

As long as the Fish are buying it, I'm In.

Although, sometimes it's fun to sell them something different.
Sometimes, we have no choice.

PS>... Don't make it look too Easy.
There are always days when the Fish will Fool Us!



If you haven't been fooled by a fish Today... then you ain't Fishin'.

[marzrw]

Rainbow stockies...She knows that the fishing ain't always easy, but after hooking one and seeing me catch a couple she was like, 'How come they didn't hit my fly, I casted to the same exact spot?' I had no answer, just delicately said, 'Maybe they liked my fly better'.

In the more remote areas I fish which are prettier, the trout aren't always as cooperative as the stockies are, which I told her...She loves to read, I told her to bring a book...Although she kept saying the infamous fishermen phrase at the end of the night, 'One more cast, just one more, alright really, just one more.' I just smiled and said, 'See, now you know why I used to say that.' I told her to take her time and when she was done we would leave...And then go to Davidson's for a brew or two...

PS...Almost had her convinced to go for some wild brookies today, but her common sense took hold over the trout bug and she wanted to work in the gardens...Oh well, at least we were outside in the fresh air...

[serotonin]

Trout couldn't care less about our common sense.

Is Wb posting ads in the Personals yet...?

[marzrw]

Is Wb posting ads in the Personals yet...?

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He said he was considering it...

[Chris Jacobs]

For trout (steelhead), I dead drift my bead head wolley buggers without a strike indicator, keeping my line tight and watch the peice of red tape at the loop on my fly line. That seems to work for me!

[marzrw]

By the way...It's Woolly, not Wolly...OOps