extensive wooly bugger testing (pic heavy)

[drowning_flys]

Got out today and did some testing and today's results were inconclusive and much more testing will be needed.
However today's results were
blood red, black = best producers
purple and yellow = prettiest fish
straight purple = best fighters
black , green, yellow , orange and yellow, brown and tan = average fish
orange blue and yellow = male fish
black white = good fish at depths greater than 30 feet
orange = good early morning color
brown = smallest fish
plane white = poor color to use and produced nothing

I rotated threw them all day and had real good results [cool]
























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[idahopanfish]

Awesome testing!
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[drowning_flys]

Thanks Michael it was a lot of fun [fishin]
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[windriver]

That is awesome. Basically those fish didn't care what color it was. I love those kind of days.

WIndriver
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[cpierce]

I love science! Nothing like spending the day experimenting.

Looks like it was a great day with some very good and willing fish.
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[drowning_flys]

Nope as long as it wasn't white tried it several times that day and just no takers. I love them too just wish they came around more often.
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[drowning_flys]

exactly gives a person the chance to try new things and sometimes ya find things that really work well. It was a very good day except i had to launch the boat myself and wore sandals to do so, first time this year and forgot sunscreen I never knew wearing socks can hurt lol
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[IDFishHound]

Very Nice.

I did a similar study with Sheep Creek variants last weekend. I haven't fished a traditional Wooly Bugger pattern in years. I'm going to have to tie up a bunch.

It was kind of the same thing with those Sheep Creeks. A buddy and I were talking about flies we used and relied on 20+ years ago but simply strayed away from over the years. Now I'm tying all these Sheep Creeks, Soft Hackles, Micky Fin's and Teeny nymphs, I'll add some Wooly Buggers to the list.
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[drowning_flys]

Thanks. I had to search that fly i had never heard of it. It looks real close to one i use a lot stayner ducktail. It never hurts to have a good selection of [#000000][font "Arial"][size 3]flys. [/size][/font][/#000000]

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[IDFishHound]

It's kind of an ongoing debate who came up with the original pattern George Biggs (Sheep Creek / Bigg's Fly) or Ruel Stayner (Stayner Ducktail). Both Idaho guys fishing the same waters here in Idaho in the late 60's early 70's. Stainer owned a Sporting goods store so the Stainer received more notoriety. Either way it's a great basic pattern that has landed a Zillion fish over the past 50 years.
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[drowning_flys]

Thanks for that information i did not know that. I suppose i should pick up a fly book someday and do some research. If the sheep creek works as good as the ducktail its an outstanding fly [cool]
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[cpierce]

I hate to hijack this thread, but I am curious about the hackle on the butt end of the Sheep Creek Fly. I am wondering why it was put on, or what purpose it serves. Does anyone know? Just water disturbance????
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I too really love the Stayner pattern, and I think I will give the Sheep Creek a try too. Do you have a variation that you like best?
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[drowning_flys]

Its a thread about flys your not hijacking it at all []
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[IDFishHound]

Here is a good place if you want more info on that fly.

[url "http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/lakes/part22.php"]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/lakes/part22.php[/url]

Ol' Marve has a good write up on the Stainer also thats a nice quick read. There is a load of articles and information for the still water flyfisherman in there gotta love the internet sometimes.

I'll tie them with a couple wraps of red, orange, yellow, peacock or even a colored bead behind the head under the wing. I like the drop action the bead provides at the front end of the fly.
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[drowning_flys]

Lota good information i enjoyed reading about it and a lot of the links on the main page, its interesting to hear stories about places you fish from long ago [cool]

Im heading out tomorrow with some new patterns i hope one of them will be a walleye fly as i patterned some of them after grubs and lures we use.




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[drowning_flys]

Had a pretty good day again. daughter fished the yellow and blood red as well as the black and green and out fished everyone. wife lost the black and gold on the first fish so i don't know if it will be a good combo or not. I fished the chartreuse colors mainly and caught a combo of walleye and trout.



















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[IDFishHound]

Nice.

Had a great day with my 9 yaer old son on Little Camas. I tied up some wooly buggers last week after your original post. Just so happens black and green was the ticket there also. Tied some wooly buggers on jig heads so my son could cast them out with a spinning rod. I think his new mantra is "fish on" because he was repeating it over and over all day long. It was his first time in a float tube and the boy got way too spoiled.
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[drowning_flys]

Thanks. Thats cool [cool] im glad he had a ball, that green and black was my daughters idea and it worked well. I tied a few up on lead heads this winter to try ice fishing but didn't have a lot of luck on them. But will have to try next year with some other colors and see how it goes.
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[forrest2906]

may I suggest a halloween pattern, or even a black and yellow bumble bee pattern also. If you do not have those colors of chenile, pm me and I can send you some. looks like the testing was a great success....this makes the want to head out fishing much stronger. Thanks for sharing.

IF you are interested...I do some underwater photography....here is a link with some photos.
sorry if this is not something you would enjoy.
there are a few tarpon pics.

[url "http://www.flickr.com/photos/uwaterphotos/"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/uwaterphotos/[/url]

Chuck
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[Duck-Slayer]

I don't know nothing about fly's but I do tie all my own steelhead jigs, i'm a spin cast guy, can you use those fly's with a spin cast rod/reel? put a couple of small split shot's on the line above it? just curious if anyone uses them that way?
Matt
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