How to Use a Wooly Bugger Lure When Fly Fishing : Fly Tying Tips for the Wooly Bugger

[CeashXD]

thanks for sharing. it is a pleasure for me to learn from you mate! cheer!

[EasyRecipesHQ]

thanks!

[riley907ak]

I have been teaching a 5 year old kid how to tie flies.  His first woolly bugger came out better. He could get the hackle palmered evenly at least!

[909beats]

When I began flyfishng, I was impressed with the class, and respect of my fellow fly fishermen. Judgiung by the comments below, I have joined a group of total assholes.

[dandotreillydot42058]

i love how he says "cement" at the end.. also he called it fly glue. is that a word?

[dandotreillydot42058]

i am by no means an expert or master fly tyer. but a can honestly say that i tye better than he does. if he cals him self an expert than that makes me magical

[yief84]

What is this?! Is an offence to every single fly fisherman... What a shame, just listen to minute 2:23

[montanahunter42]

expert village sucks ballz



[fppfisher]

expert my ass!!!

[mrflyfishingak]

and people dont make fun of the fly heis making it simpler

[mrflyfishingak]

he should have used less cheinille and put a bead head in front and flashabou in the back it looks two much like a wooly worm

[guitarman104mjb]

are you serious? that fly will fall apart after the first ten casts. i sure hope you're not one of those people who spends more time false-casting than studying river currents, cause that fly will be useless even if it does hold together.

[kingtroutfisher]

starting to flyfish tomorow whats the best fly for a smooth flowing river and to catch trout

[pwrcstr]

Sorry but my 5-year old granddaughter ties a better W.B. (basically)

[qweer999999999]

@pwrcstr gotta cut him some slack since he's basically doing it backwards (facing the camera for a better shot). but you're probably right about your gran. =p 'expert' village ought to spend more time recruiting the best in field to do their videos. so many of their hosts have a laughable skill level and get ridiculed accordingly.

[whereisbobby]

Thats a crappy bugger i could ty one a hell of a lot better!!!

[fabmaxespi]

muy mal armada esta Wooly Bugger, pero la mosca pesca igual el tema es cuantos casteos te agunta le doy tres a cuatro casteos y esa mosca se desarma FABIAN

[wrshero]

Basically, I basically absolutely basically HATE when people basically use the word basically all the time. Makes you sound less intellegent. Just a useless filler word. I basically wrap the hackle. I wrap the hackle. OK, I'm basically better now.

[WEESTRAWZ]

Nice, i tied the Olive wooly Bugger Yesterday Cant wait to try it out!

[stillrob420]

ima start fly fishin next year, im so geeked about it. i have heard nothing but good things about fly fishin

[lillsjovik]

nice tying =)I tyed the whooly bugger a week ago and caught one rainbow trout

[seismicrob2956]

i prefer to use marabou that is thinner and less stiff with wider "scales" as i call them coming off of two sides. u get more action out of the fly then. looks more life like. this especially helps in big slow deep pools.

[ibcannonball]

I suggest tying in a thin copper wire at the same time you tie the hackle on. wrap the hackle and wire forward together and this will ad alot more durability to the fly. Makes it so it wont fall apart after catching three or four fish. also I suggest wraping one wrap of chennile behind where the hackle is first tied on to prevent backwards slippage of the hackle.

[Icehut]

Fuck the hatch... don't take fly fishing too seriously... laugh at all the wannabe entomologists flailing around with their cute little Orvis outfits, dry flies, hardwood nets, etc.

Pitch a bugger, and while they're getting excited over six inch fish pull something closer to 20" out of the run right in front of the geeks! This fly will catch anything, anywhere.

[seismicrob2956]

man u sound just like me i watch guys on yellow creek not catch a thing nymphing while im catching fish every 3 casts on an olive bugger. ut theyre all too good to fish a bugger. its more exciting than nymphing too you gotta love that hard strike.

[howie345345]

knowing how to fish dries and nymphs can pay off handsomely as can a wooly bugger. You can't go your whole life fishing a bugger or a hare's ear or adams but learn it all and youll find success. Ask ANY expert and they will tell y because you dont sound like one.

[709709709]

You said it, fuck the hatch, throw out big shit, get big fish. Use proper presentation, thats it.

[xxxstephx449xxx]

Whats The Best Fly To Ue To Catch A Trout ??

[tom87pate]

I believe that the best all around trout fly is the hare's ear nyphm (wet fly), but if insects are hatching on the water; you want to match the hatch with something similar. When using any kind of lure or fly, make sure you use these steps in order: 1. Match the size of what the fish are eating first. 2. Match the shape next. 3. Then try to match the color. Try to imagine the fish' point of view; imagine looking up at something on the water with the sun (possibly) shining down.

[jrpaint62]

Thats the escense of the game!! This May,all they would take was VERY small dries(#18-22) off the surface. Eventually after rainy periods,they will start hitting this fly being tied above The woolley bugger.. I tie a number of different colors. I love it when they take tiny dries!

[ipwnkevin]

How much is a normal fly fishing pool?

[2pawd]

maby around 100+

[snowboarddude117]

its all what you want to pay for.. some people like to pay in the 4 to 5 hundred dollar range but i spend $160 on mine and love it..but you do get what you pay for sometimes

[redshaftedflicker]

I love the "purists" who scoff at the bugger. Screw them. Put on a propeller and counter wrap through the hackle with tinsel or even tying thread for a more durable fly. You can't mess up a bugger. Hackle, no hackle whatever. Lash on some fluffy feathers and a fuckin' pipe cleaner and go get ripped.

[FlyFishingFish]

Great all round fly. If you add a touch of lead weight to the front or a bead head, it makes the action even more effective for deeper waters. (Not all waters allow weighted flies.) Another effective technique is to use a nymph pattern about a foot or two in front of the wooly bugger. It appears like the wooly is chasing the nymph. I have sen trout bypass the wooly bugger and take the nymph. It seems like the fish take the nymph more for like a reflex strike then hunger sometimes.

[snowboarddude117]

can this fly be used in medium speed rivers or creeks?

[ONE2THREE4567891011]

yes, definitely

[beatbrain]

that's a lot of work holy shit...

[leanestomierda]

para que hablai tanto, basta con que ates la mosca y listo, no somos huenes gringo.

[drekecdrekecadrekecu]

u mean head like golden pearl. Yeah whatever.

[alirzb]

that is a pooooorrr fly i am 15 and have been tying for like two years and my flies are better than that...waaaayyyy better than that

[dvanbramer88]

yeah this fly isnt that great, what he use, a frieken pipe cleaner

[alirzb]

haha yeah man

oh well i gues not everybody can be as talented as us eh?

[MClown69]

dude a wooleybugger is one of the most productive flies to use. try it out. have caught steelhead, bass, gills, whatever. use black for a leech, brown for a crayfish. white for a minnow. they work. and the body isn't a piprcleaner. its chenille. its what pipe cleaners are made of but doesn't have the wire inside. you must not be soemone who ties flies or flyfishes or else you would know how great a wooley bugger is.....

[dvanbramer88]

yeah i kno what chenille is, i do tie flies also, its just he used a lot of it and it looked like a pipe cleaner, i also think he made the body to big, i attatch the chenille and the feather next to eachother, and then i twist them together so the hackle is embeded in the chenille, it works pretty good.

[corpsemunger]

i love that name... wooly bugger ha

[beatbrain]

hahah the wooly bugger

that's what i named my dogg

[flyman27302]

It is alot easier to do the hackle without the hackle pliers. They are just a good way to rip the feather. Using fingers is much easier.

[MClown69]

grasp the tip of the hackle with your hackle pliers straight up and down on hackle. if you do it at a angle or from the side ot will rip the hackle

[methylmania]

FYI. Fine Silver, gold wire or even Mono for ribbing to keep the palmered hackle from unraveling when chomped by a trout. ; ) What's so hard about a whip finisher? Ever try a Matereli whip finisher?

[ellmull]

yes and i still suffer from reccuring nightmares

[dribniff]

I liked that camera setup a lot. How did you set it up?

[caneywaney]

I like the fact I finally had seen someone else use the half hitches to finish off the knot in a fly with some head cement. I never did like the whip finisher and I also have never had a half hitch knot with head cement come undone while fishing. Nice vid. It's a lost art.

[27KITA]

"Sha- Nell? Never heard it pronounced that way..lol...

Not bad but you couldn't see from that side that the first hackle wrap was awkward. Thanks.

[LoganClark12]

Do u prefer wraping the shank with lead vs lead eyes or a bead head?

[alright4u]

I use lead wire of various sizes on all weighted nymphs and wooly buggers. I want the flies down fast, and; this fly is a killer on tail waters. Of course, it is not a cure all all season long like in June in Wyoming, and no fly works year round. It depends on where you fish, what you observe hatching, see in the water, and what kind of underwater vegetation is there if at all. The man was just showing the basics, and; he was not trying to make a perfect head.

[fuzzy346]

cool