Olive Woolly Bugger 

this guy might be the best instructor on you tube

Hands down ... best instructional fly tying vids on RU-vid.... Clear ... concise . Beautiful close up videos and well thought out narration ... great voice/voiceover. Thanks .. much appreciate your effort

2024 and I'm still making this one... works great!!! Thank you!!!

This is probably the best fly tying video for a wooly bugger out there. Not only is it informational, it creates a wonderful looking fly

probably the best bugger tie I've ever seen.

This is the best fly tying tutorial I´ve seen on youtube!

just tied a olive bugger watching this video and it's one of the best ways to tie them and no novice to fly tying love all your tying videos keep up the good work

The best instructor on RU-vid. The best wooley bugger video too.

I also want to add that I live in Missouri and nearly all of our trout streams are stocked, but there are a couple that actually have a breeding population of wild trout. I've fished 3 of them regularly and the Woolly Bugger is one of my most effective patterns that works every time on every stream that I've used it. Lately it's been a size #10 in either an Olive or Black color scheme, sometimes other variations work as well, but I just switch colors until the fish tell me what they want. BTW - I fish mine without weight and instead I fish them on sinking line and a 3# leader, just strip, strip, strip till a fish hits and the strikes are sometimes vicious almost like a bass strike nearly yanking the rod out of my hands. Woolly Buggers are Awesome and I use them almost exclusively these days. Other fishermen around me start gawking and pointing at me when I'm the only one in the group that is hauling them out on a slow day, and that's an Amazing feeling!

Excellent instruction-especially the technique for breaking the tips off of the marabou as well as leaving some bare stem for wrapping the hackle!!

You are truly a natural born teacher thanks

Always thorough with the information, which beats the crap out of other videos that don't tell you why they do anything. And always top notch video quality and editing. THIS is how you make a fly tying video!

Very nice! I just started tying my first flies and this video is impeccable.

Thanks! Glad you like them.

made my first two flies (wooly buggers) ever using your video! thank you so much!

Great video just picked up tying and this is my first bugger recipe and by far the best I have seen. My next fly I tie and learn is going to be the bivisible you tie very easy to follow thanks for the great videos!

New to this and stumbled onto this. My kid and i just made 2 of our own. 1st trout caught on them will be a memory forever!

Thank you for your work. Nicely done, good lighting, good focus, good narration, and effective teaching. Great work.

I found this at 9 years since posted and it proves to be timeless instruction !!!

Thanks! Most informative and detailed tying tutorial to date

I am getting back to tying now after a several year hiatus. I used to do all kinds of stuff with wooly buggers. I used to get the silicone skirt material used for bass jigs to match the chenile/hackle/etc and add "legs" to them. There's really no wrong way to tie one of these, they are one of the most adaptable streamers out there. I had a lot of days when all they took were #10 sized wooly buggers. It's awesome to have a big brown come out from a hide that you didn't think held a fish, just to take a swipe at it. The bugger packs are a great idea, especially if you are on a budget and want plenty of hackle to last you years of tying (if you tie at my pace, lol).

I really am thankful for this video. I am going to start tying my own flies following your instruction.

I don't know why but you voice with the motion of you puting meterials on the hook is very soothing. And fun to watch. I could watch your videos all day. Good knowledgeable tips too. Good stuff

I just started fly fishing (for bass) and just watching this makes me love the sport more. I can't wait until I get my own tying setup and produce my own wooly buggers. thanks for the instructional! :)

Thanks so much for posting this. It's a great method and very well explained. The tip about striping one side of the feather a little more is golden.

Good technique and as you said there are many ways; very nice variation and leaves room to personalize. Good tips and thanks for the contribution to those at the vise.

Yeah! That's what I like to hear. As the season progresses, try root beer colored buggers, the trout just eat 'em up. Guessing they look a lot like crayfish. Glad you liked the video.

Your instructions remind me tons of my fav youtuber TheMiteyQuin, he also does fly tying and I’ve started by watching him. I love this! Super organized!

Thanks for this! Woolly Bugger olive color with great instructions. I'm ready to start on it.

Great, easy to follow video.Tied two of these last night. The first one, I didn't capture the saddle hackle well at the head nor at the bend! Will be tying some more this week. Thanks.

Awesome instruction. This is my template and it’s worked great. Caught many trout based on your tutorial. Thank you!!

Currently there are 85 more of our videos on RU-vid. Just click the box at the top of the page that says 85 videos and you will have access to them all. Glad you like the bugger, hope you like the rest.

This is one of the best Wooly Bugger videos I've seen. Very well produced and the appropriate amount of detail. I would love to see more videos from you. I tied about a dozen flies today based off of your video. Thanks!

Nice - thanks. I prefer to do things a little differently. I tie in a sparse tail, probably 1/2-2/3 of yours. But I like the tearing of the tips tricks. I also like tying in a wire with the chenille, which traps the hackle when it arrives at the rear and provides the counter wraps. Monofilament is also useful for this.

This is the first fly I ever tied and I learned from this

Very well produced and great detail. Well done video.

this is the best video on making these I have found. thanks so much for making it. helped me so much as I have been struggling to make nice ones.

What a great video. Very informative and helpful. This will be my very first fly that I tie. Thank you for sharing and I will definitely subscribe!

Great instructional video. Just learning to tie my on flys, can't wait to get out and use them.

Nice to see Grant King's terrific vise in use.

Thank you for the video. I'm taking a fly tying class offered by the Texas Flyfishers of Houston. This will be the first fly we tie.

I find that a beadless wooly booger tied in purple in sizes 8-14 works awesome @ dawn & dusk for catching bass, crappie, blue gills, & sunfish on lakes, ponds & small streams. Good fishing.

Thank you. You just helped me tie a better wolly bugger.

you make this look easy.. I'm looking forward to trying this...

Awesome description! Very helpful! Thank you.

Awesome instructional video.

Excellent instructor - thanks!

That is some nice hackle material.. I might just fess up and buy the Whiting.. It looks super nice!

thanks for info and great vid! as a novice angler i loo to alot of videos like these for my info.. keep up the good work!

Got to love buggers.

super clean work and you make it look easy..

Love this use pattern every day not lying

you make it look so easy

I find that a beadless wooly booger tied in purple size 8-14 works awesome @ dawn & dusk for catch bass, crappie, blue gills & sunfish on lakes, ponds & small streams. Good fishing.

An excellent video presentation ! Well done !

now i know to properly tie in chenille thank you so much

These look great! I keep a few minor variations of this on hand as well for picky fish; A non-bead head version. And another, exact same but a 3-5 strands of ice marabou mixed into the tail.

Glad you - freakin - liked it!!!

If i was told I could only use one fly for the rest of my life it would be the size 10 bh wooly bugger hands down. So many variations and I can not name one stream/lake/pond or a fish species that this fly will not work on. Great video.

Your videos are great Thanks

That looks amazing! I hope to one day be able to tie that nice!

awesome video. really liked that technique where u wrapped the hook with the single feather which looked really cool

I found that black and olive green are a killer combo and the trout hit it really hard.

Awesome. thanks for sharing!

This is incredible.

this will change the way i tie flies forever

I wish I would have this much fly stuff!

i also make tons of wooly buggers , but instead of adding wire wrap and chenille i use pipe cleaner and it does a great job..

beautiful video..best Ive seen..thank you

Fantastic ,,, great work keep it up

Thanks for sharing, very informative, peace.

Fantastic videos....all of them, very informative and enjoyable, thanks for sharing your art, I sincerly appreciate it. Fish On!

Wow new to fly fishing, thought making flies would be tough but it doesn't seem so !just step by step process only thing I see though here is getting the tools lol

Thanks good information salutations from GDL Mexico.

Fantastic !

this was awesome

this is awesome

One suggestion try wrapping two or three times around just the base of the marabou and two wraps of hackle at the start

Thank you for sharing

Very nice

Great presentation:-)

Very good !

grandes truchas he pescado con la mundialmente conocida Wolly Bugger..

Boom!!! that's what matters. thank you👊

awesome fly cant wait to start making these but i had a question i have shaneal like that but the green stuff on it falls off it why is that?

Thanks so much for doing all of these videos for us! What color is that bugger pack? I'd love to make these soon!

Nice video!!

Do you have the hook mounted in the first groove of the vice? I'm trying to figure out which sizes work best mounted in the different spots on my Dyna-King vise

Great instruction! I mainly use wb for rainbow trout in sweden. I have tried different rods, would you recomend a #5 or #6 weight?

grate video.

On the fester did her tear one side off or leave both sides on and wrap it couldn’t tell first time trying to make my own flies

Fantastico!

Any idea what the lead free hairline wire is made of? Seems just about as heavy as lead

I agree

thank you

Woow beautiful 👍

amazing

Love this video. Some folks add some crystal flash, 2 strands. You do not here. Any comment? Thanks!

Great tip for bluegill tie these in sizes 18-22

One of my favorite flies. I had a 30+ rainbow trout day (all wild) on 1 olive wolly bugger that looked just like this. I'm curious if you don't think wrapping copper wire on the outside would help with keeping the fly in good shape?