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Bakers Hole Bugger

WhiskeyCreek — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:29:35 +0000

The Daily Fly Paper Blog is featuring the Bakers Hole Bugger today. Wait, that fly looks familiar

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Baker’s Hole Bugger

WhiskeyCreek — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:40:17 +0000

The Baker’s Hole Bugger is a fly pattern designed at Blue Ribbon Flies for the spawning browns in the fall that migrate through the Baker’s Hole campground. This pattern is featured in their excellent book, Fly Patterns of Yellowstone, Volume 2. This excellent books gives the back story, recipes, and special tying instructions for several dozen patterns which have been giving trout sore lips for decades.

Here is the Baker’s Hole Bugger.

Add some weight with lead-free wire. These are meant to be fished in Yellowstone, which requires completely lead-free flies.

Add a brown marabou tail, with some root beer flash on top.

Top off the tail with yellow marabou. Yellow is thought to be a trigger for fall run brown trout.

Brown and Yellow variegated chenille and a ribbing wire.

Wind the chenille forward.

A grizzly saddle hackle, with some web.

Wrap the saddle, and counter-wrap with the ribbing wire, to finish the Baker’s Hole Bugger.

Baghdad Bugger

WhiskeyCreek — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:12:48 +0000

The Baghdad Anglers Club is looking for donations of flies and other equipment that work in the combat zone. One particular pattern is black woolly-buggers with bead chain eyes for weight. Here are the flies that I am calling Baghdad Buggers.

Start with a 3x or 4x streamer hook, Dai-riki 710, size 6 is used here. Add eyes, bead chain or lead. Black 6/0 or 140 denier thread. A dab of zap-a-gap on the thread before tying in the eyes, and a small soak of zap-a-gap after.

About a dozen wraps of 0.020 lead wire (or depleted uranium if you have it), followed by tying in the black marabou tail. Notice how the tail butts against the lead wraps, which makes for a smooth, level underbody.

Tie in a small wire, red used here to complement the eyes. Tie in some black chenille, and a black saddle hackle. Then, a light coat of zap-a-gap to lock in all the tie-ins.

Wind the chenille forward, and tie off just behind the eyes. Do not cut the chenille yet.

Palmer the saddle hackle back towards the tail. When you reach the tail, use hackle pliers to hold the saddle hackle in place before counter-wrapping the wire through the saddles. Counter-wrapping means going the opposite direction than you did for the saddle. If you wrapped the hackle clockwise, then counter-wrap counter-clockwise. This reinforces the saddle hackle, allowing the fisherman to catch a few more fish before the fly falls apart.

Finish the fly by covering the lead head with chenille, and tie off. Make sure you don’t cover the hook eye with chenille; try to tie off the chenille on top or side of the hook shank.

Tie a few and donate to the Baghdad Anglers Club.

Handcuffs not included

WhiskeyCreek — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:31:22 +0000

I wanted a Bugger Barn, but Santa did not come through. Oh well, life is tough. At least I have my health.

Fortune had it, I stopped in a GameSpot store, and spotted a nice brushed aluminum case made for a hand held video game, and it was only $7.99. Inside, the case had molded foam to fit the game console, plus a USB 12v power adapter. Another $2 at the craft store for 2 sheets of 4mm foam, a strait-edge, razor blade, and some zap-a-gap.

Now, I have a bugger barn suitable for Elwood (minus the hand-cuff).

Now, I need to get tying some buggers.