10-22-2009, 04:40 AM
[indent]Not me. I have tied very few wooly bugger type flies though I have taught a few youngsters at youth tying demonstrations to tie them.
I think I have caught only one fish with a wooly bugger inspite of it being one of the most useful flies that many better fishermen and tiers than I have.
But I have actually planned to tie some soon but I will put those on the back burner.
I tied my sister-in-law's father a couple of dozen Medicine Lake Specials last spring (not a wooly bugger, a skittering caddis pattern). He said those should last him a few years. However, he did not count on my sister-in-law and my brother loosing them to the bushes and accidents and fish last week. So my brother has asked me with a grin on his face if I would tie up a couple more dozen. My brother claimed that it was about the only thing the bows, cutts and bull trout would hit. But can you trust a fly and bubble fisherman?
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I think I have caught only one fish with a wooly bugger inspite of it being one of the most useful flies that many better fishermen and tiers than I have.
But I have actually planned to tie some soon but I will put those on the back burner.
I tied my sister-in-law's father a couple of dozen Medicine Lake Specials last spring (not a wooly bugger, a skittering caddis pattern). He said those should last him a few years. However, he did not count on my sister-in-law and my brother loosing them to the bushes and accidents and fish last week. So my brother has asked me with a grin on his face if I would tie up a couple more dozen. My brother claimed that it was about the only thing the bows, cutts and bull trout would hit. But can you trust a fly and bubble fisherman?
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