{{+1}}Olive damsel bugger{{-1}}
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Keep an eye for swallows dipping on the water feeding on midge. That's a sure sign that there will also be damsel nymphs around and then of course further up the food chain there are likely to be trout feeding on both the midge and the damsel nymphs. This is the time to start thinking about fishing either damsel buggers or olive woolly buggers.
Damsel nymphs come in a range of colours ranging from dull browns through to light and dark olives.
This fly is tied much the same as a standard woolly bugger except that it's a little thinner in it's profile and a little longer in the tail.
I like to fish my olive woolly buggers on the point generally on intermediate to type 5 lines and to muck round with retrieve rates until I find the one working on the day. In my experience either medium rolly poly or a medium paced stripping action work best.
Materials
Hook | Weight | Thread | Tail | Tail flash - optional | Rib | Body | Body hackle | Front hackle |
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#8 or #10 Tiemco 3769 SPBL | 5 wraps of lead wire .010 for #8 and 0.15 for #10 | Olive | Both plain and grizzly marabou work well | Emerald sparkle flash | Fine copper wire | Peacock herl | Hen hackle | Olive Hungarian partridge |
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