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Woolly bugger
How do you tie a Woolly bugger?
Woolly bugger is a streamer fly pattern for trout. Find its 6 materials and 35 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 2 of 5
- Target species
- trout
- Pattern designer
- Russell Blessing
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At the vise
Materials
- Streamer Hook 6-10
- Thread 6/0
- Tail: Barred Marabou Olive Brown/barred Black
- Body : Lemon Lime Chenille
- Hackle : Rooster Saddle Olive/wht
- Weight : Conehead
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Tying instructions
1. Put the hook in your vise
* Hook point facing you.
* If using a bead, slide it onto the hook first.
2. Start your thread
* Start just behind the bead/eye.
* Wrap the thread toward the bend of the hook.
* Stop around the hook point/barb area.
3. Make the tail
* Cut a small bunch of marabou.
* Tie it in at the bend.
* Tail should be about the length of the hook shank.
* Don’t make it too thick.
4. Tie in the chenille
* Tie the end of the chenille at the bend.
* Leave it hanging toward the back.
5. Tie in the hackle
* Tie the tip of your hackle feather at the bend.
* Keep the feather attached—you’ll wrap it later.
6. Wrap the chenille
* Wrap the chenille forward in even wraps.
* Stop about 1–2 eye lengths behind the hook eye.
* Tie it off and trim the excess.
7. Wrap the hackle
* Grab the hackle by the stem.
* Wrap it forward through the chenille.
* Make roughly 5–7 wraps.
* Try to keep the wraps evenly spaced.
8. Tie off
* Make several thread wraps behind the eye.
* Tie off the hackle.
* Trim the extra feather.
9. Finish
* Build a small thread head.
* Whip finish.
* Add a tiny drop of head cement or fly-tying glue.