Garden State Trout

I was reading an article about fishing streamers and saw a picture of the writer's box. In his box he had purple and orange buggers, which I never have tried. I like Grizzly colored buggers best. Olive second.
What are your go to colors? Anything I should be trying?

Olive, black, brown, then white in that order. I think I use olive and black about 95% of the time, so brown and white are fairly unimportant to my streamer box although I have a few in both colors.

I fish them a lot, often that's what I'll start with if there are no bugs actively working or I have limited time and want to target predatory fish. I prefer darker olive or black. For me brown can be real good on some streams but suck on others same with purple. White I have but almost never use except on the big D.

I use olive and black mostly but I have used purple for salmon and steelhead successfully.

I use them a lot, almost exclusively olive. Black sometimes, I find white to be close to useless.

White all the way!

I have some purple , i kinda remember John Collins swearing by them.........then black olive brown........

Real fishermen, don't use streamers...ever!!!! or mopflies, or egg patterns..

lightenup wrote: ↑

Tue May 08, 2018 12:34 pm

Real fishermen, don't use streamers...ever!!!! or mopflies, or egg patterns..

Buggers aren't streamers, they're buggers you can fish them to imitate large stonefly nymphs, leeches, crayfish. Streamers have feather wings!

Twism86 wrote: ↑

Tue May 08, 2018 11:29 am

White all the way!

Its buggers not trout magnets.........

Underbody: Lead wire, or politically correct substitute (as needed for stream conditions).

Body: Brown-olive yarn unraveled from a WW II vintage wool Army sleeping bag liner.

Tail: The maribou-like fuzzy fibers from the butt of a brown mottled pheasant body feather (aka butt fuzz)

Hackle: Brown-dyed grizzly hackle

Rib: Fine copper wire strand wound in the opposite direction from the hackle.

Head: Whip finish the copper wire used for the rib (if you're too inept, just use red tying thread).

Drossi wrote: ↑

Tue May 08, 2018 4:20 pm

lightenup wrote: ↑

Tue May 08, 2018 12:34 pm

Real fishermen, don't use streamers...ever!!!! or mopflies, or egg patterns..

Buggers aren't streamers, they're buggers you can fish them to imitate large stonefly nymphs, leeches, crayfish. Streamers have feather wings!

Pattern references Woolly Wisdom (1999), Soucie[1]
The Woolly Bugger is an artificial fly commonly categorized as a wet fly or streamer and is fished under the water surface.

right!

lightenup wrote: ↑

Wed May 09, 2018 12:51 pm

Drossi wrote: ↑

Tue May 08, 2018 4:20 pm

lightenup wrote: ↑

Tue May 08, 2018 12:34 pm

Real fishermen, don't use streamers...ever!!!! or mopflies, or egg patterns..

Buggers aren't streamers, they're buggers you can fish them to imitate large stonefly nymphs, leeches, crayfish. Streamers have feather wings!

Pattern references Woolly Wisdom (1999), Soucie[1]
The Woolly Bugger is an artificial fly commonly categorized as a wet fly or streamer and is fished under the water surface.

right!

I'll go with wet fly then!

Drossi wrote: ↑

Wed May 09, 2018 12:57 pm

lightenup wrote: ↑

Wed May 09, 2018 12:51 pm

Drossi wrote: ↑

Tue May 08, 2018 4:20 pm

Buggers aren't streamers, they're buggers you can fish them to imitate large stonefly nymphs, leeches, crayfish. Streamers have feather wings!

Pattern references Woolly Wisdom (1999), Soucie[1]
The Woolly Bugger is an artificial fly commonly categorized as a wet fly or streamer and is fished under the water surface.

right!

I'll go with wet fly then!

keep rationalizing your streamer usage..

Olive, black, brown and some combination of the two of them. I also use small white ones for wild brookies from time to tiem.

Every few years I tie a few buggers but have never caught a trout on one. I know that many anglers have a lot of success with them but since I have no confidence in the fly I use them, well, every few years for about an hour.

Black, olive, or a combination of the two. I like them early before the fish start looking up. (Great on bass, too)

NJpatbee wrote: ↑

Thu May 10, 2018 3:47 pm

Every few years I tie a few buggers but have never caught a trout on one. I know that many anglers have a lot of success with them but since I have no confidence in the fly I use them, well, every few years for about an hour.

I agree that having confidence in the fly you choose is critical, but if you put a gun to my head and said I only have one fly to use to catch trout anywhere the rest of my life, I would have to choose a size 8 bead head olive woolly bugger. And that is coming from this dry fly purist snob.

Agree - that is the one fly to have, and definitely with a bead. Would argue the best fly all around for all freshwater species.

What about style of WB? I like the way Tim Flager ties them (see link attached) but maybe with a conehead and a couple of strips of flash tied along the sides. I think the very full marabou tail is best unlike my preference for sparse tying on most flies.

https://youtu.be/7Ku1-lnkKzI

Has anyone tried articulated WBs?

https://youtu.be/VZb8MziqPJw