Selecting Your Fishing Flies
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It is important when fly fishing to choose the right fly pattern. The fly was invented to mimic flying insects, but has changed.
As information was uncovered about the diet of trout and other species, the lures and flies adapted also. These can be aquatic larvae and pupae, eggs, worms, freshwater shrimp, grasshoppers, crickets, crawfish, nymphs, caddis, leeches, etc.
Then there are the attractors, which were made to attract the fish's attention and lure them to a group of artificial flies. The bass popper is a type of topwater attractor fly.
Another type of fly is the streamer, a long-tailed hair or feathered lure tied to simulate a leech or a minnow, and is used to fish below the surface of the water.
At one time flies were identified by the target fish, but as the sport of fly fishing became more popular in the United States, a debate ensued regarding Dry Flies versus Wet Flies and Nymphs.
Today trying to identify the types of artificial flies is much more complicated. Fly fisherman no longer just fly fish for trout, salmon and maybe bass as they did at on time. They now target over 100 species of fish around the globe in a variety of different types of water. The fly fishermen needed a wider range of artificial flies. The market is now using synethic materials rather than the natural materials to construct the artificial flies.
A woolly bugger is a streamer. Fishermen think they appeal to fish better than most because just about every kind of fish will bite with a woolly bugger on the hook.
The woolly buggers are a very simple streamer to make. A feather from a marabou is tied to a 2X hook. A piece of chenille is then swathed around the remainder. A hackle is then wound on the chenille body. When it is completed, it has the appearance of fuzzy worm when it is dry. When it is wet the fuzzy look is gone replace by the look of a slick baitfish.
Although the Woolly buggers are available in several colors, the buggers made with the colors black, olive, and tan are the ones chosen by fishermen the most. When fishing in deep water, the white woolly burger is the one chosen the most often. This is because the woolly bugger looks so much like a swimming fish when it is pulled rapidly through the water.
You can get woolly buggers with or without a weight. The basic woolly buggers are very light in weight and will skim across the surface of the water.
