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This wonderfully named fly came to light in Australia when John Horsey published an article about the 2008 Fly Fishing Championships that he came fourth in just a few months earlier. He went onto say 'I switched to a slime line and put a Black Straggle Fritz Taddy on the point, kept the Damsel on the dropper and, due to the weed, discarded the top dropper completely. At the end of one retrieve I had a cracking take on the hang and bullied a near 5lb rainbow into the net.' Not much different to a standard woolly bugger but perhaps the straggle fritz tipped the scale ... in any case it's a cracker of a name for a fly and a great woolly bugger variation.

You can of course substitute thread head and lead wire weight for the bead as in the silver surfer.

Materials

Process

A	Most beads have a large opening at one end and a smaller opening at the other. Slide a bead over the point of the hook small opening first and position it behind the eye of the hook. Adding weight to a fly Wind the thread from behind the bead to the bend of the hook. Understanding hooks

B	Tie in a marabou tail about 1.5 times the length of the hook.

C	Tie in a length of straggle fritz at the bend of the hook. Stroke the straggle fritz fibres backward out of the way so that as you wind the straggle fritz forward you won't tie down any of the fibres.

D	Wind the straggle fritz forward in touching turns to the 95% position taking care at each turn to stroke the straggle fritz fibres backward out of the way so that as you wind the next turn of the straggle fritz forward you don't tie down any of the fibres. Tie it off behind the bead and trim the excess straggle fritz. Whip finish behind the bead head, trim the thread and varnish the thread behind the bead and the bead itself. If you don’t varnish the bead it will tarnish quite quickly.

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