Posts by Fly Fishing the Sierra

Woolly Bugger, Purple Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook or Thread Head Hackle palmered through body and two wraps behind the bead. Body Ribbing with two strands Tail with 4 strands of Woolly Bugger While the Woolly Bugger has it’s origins in older British Patterns, the Palmer and the “Tadpole Fly”, most attribute…

Doc’s Twin Lakes Special Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight Hackle 2 wraps of Body Throat Tail with 2 strands of Doc’s Twin Lakes Special Doc’s Twin Lake Special is a cross between a Matuka and a Woolly Bugger. It has the Marabou tail and chenille body of a Woolly…

Rickard’s Emerging Bugger Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight Hackle 2 wraps of Body and Tail with 2 strands of Rickard’s Emerging Bugger Stillwater expert, Denny Rickards, desiring a complementary emerger pattern to his A.P. Emerger, came up with the Emerging Bugger in 2010. The Rickard’s Emerging Bugger pattern utilizes…

Seal Bugger, Olive Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight Hackle 2 wraps of Body Tail with 2 strands of Stillwater guru,Denny Rickards,developed the Seal Bugger in the mid-1980’s at Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon. It is a variation of the Woolly Bugger utilizing some of the features of the Mohair…

Woolly Worm Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Body Hackle Tail Woolly Worm The Woolly Worm utilizes a palmered hackle along the entire hook shank which has been documented as early as the 1500’s during Napolean’s time. According to A.J. McClane (The Practical Fly Fisherman, 1975), Izaak Walton described the fly…

Cole Bugger, Tan Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight Hackle 2 wraps of Body Tail with 4 strands of Cole Bugger Jeff Cole of San Diego showed me this fly in May 2004 while at Alper’s Ranch on the Upper Owens River. He’s been tying this fly for about 20…

Carey Bugger, Olive Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Hackle 2 wraps of Body Tail with 4 strands of Carey Bugger The Carey Bugger is a variation of the Carey Special, a streamer pattern developed within the Kamloops area of British Columbia. The pattern is popular within the Sierra as a…

  Black and Green Bunny Stripper Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight 10-15 wraps of Body Thorax Tail with 4 strands of Bunny Stripper The Bunny Stripper was designed by Guide Arlo Townsend,Arlo’s Guide Service. Arlo guides out of Reno, Nevada and uses this pattern on Pyramid Lake and the…

Crystal Bugger, Black Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight 10-15 wraps of Body Ribbing Tail with 4 strands of Crystal Bugger The Crystal Bugger is a simple variation of the Woolly Bugger utilizing Crystal Chenille for the body. Bill Schiess is first noted to use this material on Henry’s Lake…

Bow River Bugger, Black Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight 15-20 wraps of Body Ribbing Collar Tail with 3-4 strands Hackle Bow River Bugger Bow River fishing guide, Peter Chenier, developed the Bow River Bugger in the 1980s in Calgary. It is a wooly bugger with a muddler style head.…