What color buggers do you like

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What color buggers do you like

Post by 229oz » Tue May 08, 2018 9:33 am

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?

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Rusty Spinner » Tue May 08, 2018 9:40 am

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.
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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Drossi » Tue May 08, 2018 9:55 am

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.
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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by njcatchrelease » Tue May 08, 2018 10:16 am

I use olive and black mostly but I have used purple for salmon and steelhead successfully.
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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Johnw » Tue May 08, 2018 10:44 am

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

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Twism86 » Tue May 08, 2018 11:29 am

White all the way!
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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by MR.MCR » Tue May 08, 2018 11:36 am

I have some purple , i kinda remember John Collins swearing by them.........then black olive brown........
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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by lightenup » Tue May 08, 2018 12:34 pm

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

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Drossi » 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.. :D
Buggers aren't streamers, they're buggers :lol: you can fish them to imitate large stonefly nymphs, leeches, crayfish. Streamers have feather wings! :shock:
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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by MR.MCR » Tue May 08, 2018 6:07 pm

Twism86 wrote:
Tue May 08, 2018 11:29 am
White all the way!
Its buggers not trout magnets.........
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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Pete » Tue May 08, 2018 9:02 pm

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).

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by lightenup » 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.. :D
Buggers aren't streamers, they're buggers :lol: you can fish them to imitate large stonefly nymphs, leeches, crayfish. Streamers have feather wings! :shock:

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. :D :o

right! :D

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Drossi » 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
lightenup wrote:
Tue May 08, 2018 12:34 pm
Real fishermen, don't use streamers...ever!!!! or mopflies, or egg patterns.. :D
Buggers aren't streamers, they're buggers :lol: you can fish them to imitate large stonefly nymphs, leeches, crayfish. Streamers have feather wings! :shock:

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. :D :o

right! :D
I'll go with wet fly then! :P
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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by lightenup » Wed May 09, 2018 3:40 pm

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 :lol: you can fish them to imitate large stonefly nymphs, leeches, crayfish. Streamers have feather wings! :shock:

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. :D :o

right! :D
I'll go with wet fly then! :P
:lol: keep rationalizing your streamer usage.. :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by joe_panella » Thu May 10, 2018 6:23 am

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

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by NJpatbee » 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.

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Bob J » Fri May 11, 2018 6:22 am

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

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Rusty Spinner » Fri May 11, 2018 8:55 am

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. :D
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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by Bob J » Fri May 11, 2018 6:17 pm

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

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Re: What color buggers do you like

Post by taltac » Fri May 11, 2018 10:34 pm

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

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