Woolly Bugger Chenille?
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Pretty easy to find whatever you want for chenille. I use a wide range of colors and variations, mostly medium, some large, some fine. Black, brown, olives mostly. Some plain, some with sparkles. Bodies can be made of many different materials, chenille is easy and works.
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Also try a thin mint with peacock body as mentioned, great bugger type fly. Black is a standard for me. The others were correct, reenforce with wire or it comes apart, using flash, or none, and won't last but a few fish.
Also try a thin mint with peacock body as mentioned, great bugger type fly. Black is a standard for me. The others were correct, reenforce with wire or it comes apart, using flash, or none, and won't last but a few fish.
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I failed to mention early when I said: Limitless color opportunities that Arizona Dubbing has a great selection of buggery dubbing. I pretty use Semi-seal (50 colors) or Diamond dub (43 colors) on my flies but there's others as well. The great thing about Arizona dubbing is that you can buy direct from them. No fly shop is going to have all the available colors.
www.azflyfishing.net
Tying Materials – Arizona Fly Fishing
Tying Materials John has been perfecting his fiber mixology for decades, and has created some of the finest dubbing and streamer hair materials available anywhere. Sold under the " Arizona" labe…
www.azflyfishing.net
I failed to mention early when I said: Limitless color opportunities that Arizona Dubbing has a great selection of buggery dubbing. I pretty use Semi-seal (50 colors) or Diamond dub (43 colors) on my flies but there's others as well. The great thing about Arizona dubbing is that you can buy direct from them. No fly shop is going to have all the available colors.
Tying Materials – Arizona Fly Fishing
Tying Materials John has been perfecting his fiber mixology for decades, and has created some of the finest dubbing and streamer hair materials available anywhere. Sold under the " Arizona" labe…
I've got a lot of AZ Semi Seal dubbing. Going to play around with some designs this weekend.
I keep the 4 colors I use most (peacock, an olive, blk and canadian black) handy on the left side of that box drawer. Great stuff, really fishy, and ties some extremally durable flies. The basic leeches, on a jig hook under an indicator or a standard tie, work so well I have not experimented too much yet. I believe I've seen some of your jstockard posts and the arizona site has great directions for use.I failed to mention early when I said: Limitless color opportunities that Arizona Dubbing has a great selection of buggery dubbing. I pretty use Semi-seal (50 colors) or Diamond dub (43 colors) on my flies but there's others as well. The great thing about Arizona dubbing is that you can buy direct from them. No fly shop is going to have all the available colors.
Tying Materials – Arizona Fly Fishing
Tying Materials John has been perfecting his fiber mixology for decades, and has created some of the finest dubbing and streamer hair materials available anywhere. Sold under the " Arizona" labe…
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I really like the Peacock and Canadian Black. I even tied some 1/8 oz jigs for gear fishing with these two and they do really well.
Did really well with some leeches as well.
I just use the same chenille that I use for my stoneflies. Look up stonefly chenille, on Fly Fish Food or Tactical Fly Fisher. The stuff they carry is the perfect thickness. Everything else is crap. Fly Fish Food worked with one of the material companies, to get the right size.
I appreciate it. I’ll take a look for sure.
You've got lots of great advice on this chenille question. I have a tip on tails.
Instead of using the long thin type of marabou, I use the "wooly bugger" marabou. It has shorter fatter softer wisps on the side of the feather. I can't always get a really long tail, but I get a more wiggly action. Just a little twitch on my lake flies gets the tail moving.
Try a few and see what you think. Fish long and prosper
Instead of using the long thin type of marabou, I use the "wooly bugger" marabou. It has shorter fatter softer wisps on the side of the feather. I can't always get a really long tail, but I get a more wiggly action. Just a little twitch on my lake flies gets the tail moving.
Try a few and see what you think. Fish long and prosper
Cascade Crest new age chenille in size 0 works well (same size as the Flyfish food stonefly chenille w better color combos for wooley buggers). The 0 size is nice for wrapping a two layer (up and back) body. The Henry’s lake, red olive, excelsior olive and purple beaver color combos are fishy on WBs (and stoneflies). Wapsi WB antron chenille is nice. Dubbing in a loop is great. If u don’t want to mess w a loop, put a layer of super glue on the shank before wrapping the dubbing. Makes a more durable fly and once it dries u can go back in w a wire brush and tear it up to make a nice shaggy body.
I like to use long marabou feathers.
Tie in the tail, twist the long fibers above the tie in point into a rope and wrap forward as you would with chenille.
Palmer your hackle then rib with fine or ultra fine wire.
Less steps than chenille and the marabou body adds life to the fly.
This is a leech with a marabou body picked out with a dubbing needle.
Try it, you'll like it.
Tie in the tail, twist the long fibers above the tie in point into a rope and wrap forward as you would with chenille.
Palmer your hackle then rib with fine or ultra fine wire.
Less steps than chenille and the marabou body adds life to the fly.
This is a leech with a marabou body picked out with a dubbing needle.
Try it, you'll like it.
i use fine size chenille on the wollys i tie regardless o hook size
or peacock herl
or peacock herl
I’ve been using the side feathers on a couple buggers and leeches. Seems to do a good job.
Thanks! I’ll take a look. I’ve a actually gotten pretty good at dubbing loops.
I like to use long marabou feathers.
Tie in the tail, twist the long fibers above the tie in point into a rope and wrap forward as you would with chenille.
Palmer your hackle then rib with fine or ultra fine wire.
Less steps than chenille and the marabou body adds life to the fly.
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This is a leech with a marabou body picked out with a dubbing needle.
Try it, you'll like it.
Never even thought If doing that with the Marabou. I’m going to give that a try.
Picked up some Peacock Herl today!
Caught a little SRC a little earlier today. Tried to get a shot but it flipped out of the next while fumbling for my phone. All of 6-8”! Monsta!
Caught on this bugger I tied with some marabou and Semi Seal. Definitely need to add some more to the tail. Tail was still wet in the photos from cleaning it. But hey, it caught something! Fishing in heavy seaweed and it held up pretty well.
Please don’t make too much fin of the fly!
Caught on this bugger I tied with some marabou and Semi Seal. Definitely need to add some more to the tail. Tail was still wet in the photos from cleaning it. But hey, it caught something! Fishing in heavy seaweed and it held up pretty well.
Please don’t make too much fin of the fly!
Caught a little SRC a little earlier today. Tried to get a shot but it flipped out of the next while fumbling for my phone. All of 6-8”! Monsta!
Caught on this bugger I tied with some marabou and Semi Seal. Definitely need to add some more to the tail. Tail was still wet in the photos from cleaning it. But hey, it caught something! Fishing in heavy seaweed and it held up pretty well.
Please don’t make too much fin of the fly!
That looks very fishy.
