What's Catching You Fish?

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Spent 25 minutes on this one. It revealed itself when it chased an elk hair caddis. Got it to look at a diving caddis. Repositioned and tied the BHGRHE on, waited, gave a cast, let it sink, and then lifted the fly in front of the fish. It just got hammered. So much fun, quite the challenge.
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I came up with guy a number of years ago. It uses the same colors as an Adams dry fly. I figured it it has proven itself as a dry fly, why not use the same color combination for a Woolly Bugger? It did work. I sent it to fly angler I knew around the country and asked them to try it. It is designed for stillwaters but some folks used it to do well on moving water.

Last week, John and I went to a coastal lake in Oregon and caught a lot of trout with this pattern. At one point I started using it as the point fly and the dropper. This worked particularly well. It is a planted lake so we caught a lot of fish in the 8-12 inch size but I managed to fool at 18 incher and then a 17 incher.

John and I have been fishing together from our 20s to today. I turn 75 this year and John turns 80 so we've been flinging flies at the same time for a long time.

This is the WB we were both using to catch the trout. I call it a Woolly Adams:

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I came up with guy a number of years ago. It uses the same colors as an Adams dry fly. I figured it it has proven itself as a dry fly, why not use the same color combination for a Woolly Bugger? It did work. I sent it to fly angler I knew around the country and asked them to try it. It is designed for stillwaters but some folks used it to do well on moving water.

Last week, John and I went to a coastal lake in Oregon and caught a lot of trout with this pattern. At one point I started using it as the point fly and the dropper. This worked particularly well. It is a planted lake so we caught a lot of fish in the 8-12 inch size but I managed to fool at 18 incher and then a 17 incher.

John and I have been fishing together from our 20s to today. I turn 75 this year and John turns 80 so we've been flinging flies at the same time for a long time.

This is the WB we were both using to catch the trout. I call it a Woolly Adams:

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Do you use mixed brown and grizzly dry fly hackle, or softer webbier feathers? And is the body just the marabou tail feather twisted and wrapped?
 
Yes. I use two feathers of dry fly quality. Coachman brown and Grizzly. I don't want them to collapse as do wet fly quality. I believe the stouter fibers give the pattern a different profile than the webby type. The tail and body is indeed one marabou feather twisted and wrapped forward to create the body. This is how I make the majority of my WBs that have the same color body as the tail.

(somewhere in all that is a fine gold wire rib that holds the hackle feathers in place)
 
GAT said:
I came up with guy a number of years ago. It uses the same colors as an Adams dry fly. I figured it it has proven itself as a dry fly, why not use the same color combination for a Woolly Bugger? It did work. I sent it to fly angler I knew around the country and asked them to try it. It is designed for stillwaters but some folks used it to do well on moving water.

Last week, John and I went to a coastal lake in Oregon and caught a lot of trout with this pattern. At one point I started using it as the point fly and the dropper. This worked particularly well. It is a planted lake so we caught a lot of fish in the 8-12 inch size but I managed to fool at 18 incher and then a 17 incher.

John and I have been fishing together from our 20s to today. I turn 75 this year and John turns 80 so we've been flinging flies at the same time for a long time.

This is the WB we were both using to catch the trout. I call it a Woolly Adams:

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I love that - it screams caterpillar to me
 
During the 70s and 80s, we used Comet (Boss) style flies with great success to fool salmon. The bead-chain eyes make them whistle if you false cast them much. We switched to the dumbbell eyes when they first came out but we found that the fish preferred the bead-chain eyes over the dumbbell eyes. It appears they still like the bead-chain approach.

Cool photos and fly.
 
Buggy AF…..these are my go-to tool fly anymore, and they flat out catch fish. My bastardized version of a Walt’s worm. The gun metal bead one is 4.5 mm tung on sz 16 jig hook. That one has been slaying on the local river. Fish taking it over a more realistic looking offering on a two fly setup

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Fished a hare's ear under a yellow humpy upstream. I just buy the humpy's from big y as I can't tie 'em worth a shit but they work so well most of the time. Just lost the fished fly and changing over setups.
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Fished a knuckle dragging stone with a muddled pennell downstream, which was a better pair.
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