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Killer Buggle
How do you tie a Killer Buggle?
Killer Buggle is a nymph fly pattern for trout. Find its 5 materials and 9 tying steps below.
An easy, inexpensive buggy trout pattern built from yarn, wire, and marabou. The Killer Buggle fishes like a leggy larva or small leech and makes a great first tying pattern.
- Difficulty
- 2 of 5
- Target species
- trout
- Pattern designer
- Kyra Kennedy
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At the vise
Materials
- Daiichi 1190 Barbless Dry Fly Hook
- Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift Yarn
- Hareline Wooly Bugger Marabou
- UTC Ultra Wire Small
- Gorilla Superglue
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Tying instructions
Clamp the hook into the vise or X-Acto handle so the sharp tip is covered.
Start wrapping the copper wire at the eye and move down the hook shank toward the curve.
Wrap the yarn in the same fashion as the wire, beginning at the eye and proceeding down the length of the shank.
Wrap the yarn back up the shank toward the eye, stopping one width of yarn short of the eye.
Wind the wire up the body toward the eye, ending where the head tapers.
With your fingers, peel a half-inch strip of fluff from a marabou feather.
Place the bundle on top of the fly with the quill end over the hook eye.
Wrap with wire over the bundle three times to secure.
Tie off the wire in front of the feathers with a whip finish, snip the wire and yarn, and trim the feather ends close to the fly body.