Bugger Patterns

    Autumn Splendor Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight Rib Body Tail Legs Flash Hackle and Autumn Splendor The Autumn Splendor fly is a popular and effective streamer pattern, essentially a heavily weighted Woolly Bugger variation known for its lively action and “autumn” colors (yellow and brown/orange). It was developed by Colorado guide Tim…

Midnight Cowboy Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Body Hackle Tail The Midnight Cowboy belongs to a class of bugger patterns known as Pyramid Lake Buggers. They originated in the early 2000’s at the Reno Fly Shop when tied by Terry Barron and Andy Burk. Pyramid Lake Buggers are known for being…

The Grinch Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Ribbing 7 wraps Body Hackle Collar Tail with and – 5 pieces on each side The Grinch streamer pattern was created by Montana outfitter and guide, Kory Kober, around 2012. Kory owns a fly shop in Columbus, Montana known as the Otter’s Den.…

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…