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Rickard’s Emerging Bugger – an effective adaptation of a bugger
Rickard’s Emerging Bugger
Tying Instructions
1. Attach the .020 lead-free wire behind the eye and wrap 10-15 times on the shank.
2. Attach the thread to the shank behind the eye..
3. Secure the lead wire with thread wraps. Bring the thread back to the bend of the hook.
4. Clip the fibers off a marabou plume stem to tie in a tail. The length should be the same as the shank length. Keep the number of tail fibers sparse about 15-20 fibers. Secure the marabou with 3-4 pinch wraps keeping the material on top of the shank.
5. Secure the butt ends of the marabou over the lead wraps with thread wraps.
6. Trim off the excess Marabou. Attach two strands of Flashabou to the top of the tail. The strands should go the length of the tail.
7. Attach a copper wire ribbing to the bottom of the shank below the lead wraps. Secure the wire ribbing with thread wraps to the tail tie-in position.
8. Mix up a dubbing blend of 50% J.Fair Simi Seal and 50% Ice Dubbing. For this pattern, we use Black/Red Simi Seal and Peacock Ice Dubbing.
9. Apply the dubbing to the thread in a clockwise rotation. Slide the dubbing up to the tail tie-in position for that a few fibers touch the shank. Then, wrap the dubbed thread 2 times to lock these fibers to the shank.
10. You can tighten or loosen the dubbing on the thread with further twisting. Wrap the dubbed thread forward about an eye width behind the eye and secure with thread wraps.
11. Wrap the ribbing forward about 5 turns. Secure with thread wraps and trim off the copper wire tag using a heavy wire scissor, not your thread scissor! Some will break the wire with a back and forth motion but this is medium guage and it doesn’t break easily. Mash down the cut end against the shank.
12. Select a webby saddle hackle the same size as the hook. Attach the hackle just in front of the body by the base with thread wraps. The shiny side of the hackle should face forward so the the fibers sweep back.
13. Build a small thread head and Whip Finish.
14. Brush the body with a piece of velcro or a dubbing brush. Tease the dubbing material so that it extends through the hackle fibers and tends to blend in.
15. Apply some head cement the thread head. The finished Emerging Bugger
| Materials
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| Hook | Daiichi 1710, #8-10 |
| Thread | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Head | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Weight | 0.020 Leadfree Wire |
| Hackle | 2 wraps of Purple Grizzly Saddle Hackle |
| Body | Black & Red Simi Seal and Peacock Ice Dubbing |
| Tail | Black Marabou with 2 strands of Copper Wire |
Denny Rickards
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 many of the colorations and materials of his popular Seal Buggers series yet he ties this pattern to a 2XL Nymphal hook and adds a hackle collar for the impression of an emerging nymph. It is a 50/50 mix of Angora Dubbing and Ice Dubbing. Rather than palmering a hackle through the body (as on the Seal Bugger), the hackle is wrapped just behind the head.
Presentation
The hook is slightly longer than his AP Emerger pattern, a 2xl nymph hook such as a TMC 5263 or Daiichi 1710. Denny fishes this pattern as an emerging nymph with either a Sink Tip or a Full Sinking line utilizing a pulsating upward retrieval. The pattern can also be fished as a streamer with a slow retrieve mimicking a baitfish.
Color Combinations
Denny uses many different color combinations of the body, tail and hackle. The major body colors are Olive, Black/Red, and Black. The darker colors work especially well under low light conditions. The lighter Olive colors work well late-morning and midday. Hackle colorations include: Burnt Orange and Burgundy. Tail colorations are: Burnt Orange, Burgundy, Olive, and Black.
Variations
Emerging Bugger 2
| Hook | Daiichi 1710, #8-10 |
| Thread | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Head | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Weight | 0.020 Leadfree Wire |
| Hackle | 2 wraps of Purple Grizzly Saddle Hackle |
| Body | Black & Red Simi Seal and Peacock Ice Dubbing |
| Tail | Claret Marabou with 2 strands of Copper Wire |
Emerging Bugger 3
| Hook | Daiichi 1710, #8-10 |
| Thread | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Head | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Weight | 0.020 Leadfree Wire |
| Hackle | 2 wraps of Orange Grizzly Saddle Hackle |
| Body | Olive Simi Seal and Olive Ice Dubbing |
| Tail | Crawdad Orange Marabou with 2 strands of Copper Wire |
Emerging Bugger 4
| Hook | Daiichi 1710, #8-10 |
| Thread | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Head | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Weight | 0.020 Leadfree Wire |
| Hackle | 2 wraps of Orange Grizzly Saddle Hackle |
| Body | Olive Simi Seal and Olive Ice Dubbing |
| Tail | Crawdad Orange Marabou with 2 strands of Copper Wire |
Emerging Bugger 5
| Hook | Daiichi 1710, #8-10 |
| Thread | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Head | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Weight | 0.020 Leadfree Wire |
| Hackle | 2 wraps of Orange Grizzly Saddle Hackle |
| Body | Black Simi Seal and Peacock Ice Dubbing |
| Tail | Black Marabou with 2 strands of Copper Wire |
Emerging Bugger 6
| Hook | Daiichi 1710, #8-10 |
| Thread | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Head | Danville Black 6/0 |
| Weight | 0.020 Leadfree Wire |
| Hackle | 2 wraps of Orange Grizzly Saddle Hackle |
| Body | Black Simi Seal and Peacock Ice Dubbing |
| Tail | Crawdad Orange Marabou with 2 strands of Copper Wire |