The Little Red Bugger |
Hook: Size 10 streamer hook (it's supposed to be tiny)
Thread: 6/0 whatever color you want
Ribbing: Small diameter gold or silver wire
Tail: One red and one peach colored marabou feather
Body: Small red standard chenille
Hackle: Small red strung saddle hackle
Flash: a couple strands of your favorite tinsel in the tail (not shown)
I was first turned onto this fly, some years ago, by the old guy at Flint Creek Outdoors in Phillipsburg, Montana. I went in to ask for tips on the early season fishing on Georgetown Lake and he told me this little red Woolly Bugger was the ticket. He said it did a good job resembling a tiny brook trout. Whatever the fish took it for, it was definitely a really effective fly. I caught a million rainbows and my first huge G-town brook trout.
The story doesn't end there. The next day, as it always seems to do up there, the wind started howling and it even started snowing. I hadn't got my fill of fishing yet (don't know if there is such a thing) so I headed down to the upper Clark Fork at Warm Springs. Out of pure laziness and curiosity, I left the little red bugger tied on and proceeded to catch what seemed like every last brown trout in the river. It was unreal. I also caught one of those gigantic rainbow trout that fall over the spillway.
The streamer trend over the last decade has been towards those huge, Gallup-inspired
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