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If your fishing in water with reasonably large numbers of caddis your going to want to give this small to very small bugger a swim. Caddis represent up to 70% of a trout's diet and whilst this fly is bigger than any caddis nymph I have seen trout love it. It is also a must tie on fly for discoloured water.

You can fish it as a nymph but my preference is to fish it across, down and on the swing.

My favourite woolly buggers

Materials

Hook	Thread	Tail	Butt	Rib	Body	Hackle
Size #10 use Knapek Nymph but for sizes #12 and #14 use Knapek Lure or Jig hooks	6/0 grey Uni-thread	Filoplume from cock grizzly hackles	Pink floss	Copper wire	Grey seals fur	English partridge grey neck feather

Process

A	Most beads have a large opening at one end and a smaller opening at the other. Slide a tungsten bead over the point of the hook small opening first and position it behind the eye of the hook. Wind the thread in touching turns to the bend of the hook. The hook I have used here is Knapek nymph hook in size #10 and the finished fly is from 2.5 to 3 cm in length. For smaller versions I swap over to the Knapek lure or jig hooks so that I can maintain a reasonably wide gape making it easier to hook fish. With the #12 the finished fly is only 2.0 to 2.5 cm in length and with the #14 the fished fly is only 1.5 to 2.0 cm long. Understanding hooks If your going to add extra weight do that now. Using tungsten beads I find that unnecessary. Adding weight to a fly Tie in a woolly bugger type tail equal in length of the hook. Resist the temptation to make the tail too bulky and too long.

B	Tie in a length of pink floss at about the 10% position.

C	Wind the pink floss back to the bend of the hook in touching turns taking care to cover the last black thread used to tie in the filoplume tail and then wind the floss back forward in touching turns to the 10% position. Tie the floss off with a couple of firm wraps of thread and trim the excess thread. Tie in a length of wire on top of the hook shank stopping at the 5% position.

D	Build up a cigar shaped body from the 5% position to behind the bead.

E	Wind the wire forward forming 4 or 5 segment on the body of the fly. Body segments on flies Take one extra wrap of the wire behind the bead.

F	Worry off the excess wire. Tie in a hackle, by the tip, directly behind the bead. Woolly bugger hackles

G	Trim off the tip of the feather where it is tied in. Take just 1 or 2 or three turns of the feather . Tie the feather off and trim the butt with a blade rather than scissors.

H	Stroke the front hackle back with the fingers of your left hand and build up a neat thread head directly behind the eye of the hook. Whip finish and varnish the head. The overall length of these mini bugger should only be between 25 and 30 mm.