STEELHEAD Woolly BUGGER 

Hi, I have been tying these patterns for over forty years, but never in pink! I do like your combination and will try it out. I mainly fish for steelheads either in very fast rivers on our volcanic plateau that flow into Lake Taupo during the spawning runs in our winter or the river mouths in summer or at night. I have watched my son fishing his Euro nymphing set up and often thought how that would fish with a streamer fly. I tend to nymph up to the head of the pool using a #6 rod with tungsten beaded nymphs on a #14 hook and a #8 swing rigged rod with a tungsten beaded wooly bugger tied on a long #2 hook down the pool towards the rapid’s. Makes for an interesting days out fishing! Thanks for the effort you have put into your explanation and I wish you luck and tight lines. Cheers mate. Harera

I like your videos because you actually show the reality of tying the flies ie filmed the trouble you were having to get the hackle to work properly

Excellent presentation

Nice job 👌

Love this pattern!! I’ve been testing different bugger variations for the Salmon river steelies in upstate NY, will definitely be trying this one out on some hungry dropbacks in April!!

Beautiful. Probably going to get back into tying since i started steelhead fishing again. You able to use trout beads? Because if youre able to get some a little bit bigger than what youre using, you basically have an easy to tie egg sucking leech, which along with wooly buggers is one of my old man and myselfs favorite flys. Also, if you can use trout beads you could tie a few with the ones made of glass. The extra weight could help in heavy current. Theres so many good fly patterns for trout, but i use spinning or centerpin tackle so i carry a bit of everything. To avoid an absurd amount of tackle theres just a few flies i carry in various colors and sizes. Buggers, egg sucking leeches, nuke eggs, hares ears, copper johns and squirmy wormys.

Looks effective I’ll definitely give it a go

Mop tail jig

Nice bugger