Posts Tagged ‘River buggers’
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These are small woolly bugger variants that I keep handy for river fishing and also as back ups when small buggers are need in still water fisheries. They are generally tied in jig hooks and around just 3.5 cm long.
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{{+1}}Sort out your fly boxes{{-1}}
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Every now and then it's worth going through your fly boxes and resorting them. Not only does it give you a chance to re-establish some order in your fly boxes but it also helps identify where you need to tie a few and which ones you can discard.{{end}}
Last Updated: November 12, 2019
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Tags: #fishonfly, Blog-tag, bugg, River buggers, Woolly buggers & variants 
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{{+1}}TBH / CDC river jig bugger – brown{{-1}}
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In rivers they lend themselves to being swung down and across shallow water or to being swum down where the fish are holding in deeper pools. They also work well in a two fly Euro Nymph style team. In still water they are a great option fished alone at any depth to nervous fish and are an ideal middle dropper or point fly in a team of two or three buggers.{{end}}
{{+1}}Red TBH CDC black fuzzel jig bugger{{-1}}
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This fly is one of a series of 4 woolly bugger flies that I tie specifically for river fishing and if I only had one woolly bugger in my river fishing fly box this would be the one.{{end}}
{{+1}}Silver TBH CDC black/red MKII fuzzel bugger{{-1}}
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MKII woolly buggers without any weight are amongst my favourite top dropper flies when loch style fly fishing in lakes and these smaller versions with a silver tungsten bead are up there amongst my favourite river flies.{{end}}
{{+1}}Silver TBH CDC black sparkle fuzzel bugger{{-1}}
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This one of the 4 colours of TBH jig buggers that I carry in my river fly box. It's a great buggy looking fly that sink well and swims hook point up so less likely to get hooked up on the bottom othan flies that swim hook point down.{{end}}
{{+1}}River Jig Bugger – CDC orange TBH and black{{-1}}
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This is really good representation of a woolly bugger for river fishing. It sinks well and the jig hook encourages the fly to bounce along the bottom hook point up which of course mitigates snags. Whilst I have set the recipe out below for the brown, black and olive jig buggers I also tie my sparkle bugger and skirted buggers in the form of a jig bugger as shown in the photos below.{{end}}