Wooly Bugger Patterns - Woolly Buggers, Baby Buggers, Wooly Worms - Global FlyFisher

Wooly Bugger Patterns

The best and most efficient wooly buggers for smallmouth and largemouth bass, brown trout and seatrout. Palmer hackled killers for all kinds of waters.

The Perfect Woolly

Bugger!: Many flies were developed from the Woolly Bugger, German Raoul Kempkes got back to it and created a very simple pattern which is extremely durable and very easy to tie. Only a few materials are needed to tie a great pattern which is highly versatile. The perfect Woolly Bugger!
Learn to tie it here

Woolly Wisdom

Bugger: A whole book about woolly Worms and Woolly Buggers! Whoa! And a good book too. And it has flies both by GFF staff and friends of GFF in it. That can't bad... Gary Soucie's Woolly Wisdom has more than 400 Woolly patterns on some 230 pages.
Read Martin Joergensen's review here

The Grey Fred

Killer fly: A true classic on the Danish coast and a very universal small fish imitation, which has not only caught thousands of sea trout, but would very likely also be able to catch almost anything that has scales and swims.
See the step-by-step tying instructions here

Magnus

A true classic: If one particular fly was to be celebrated as the Mother of all the typical Danish, gray, nondescript hackle flies it would have to be The Magnus. Originated in 1973 in Denmark it has become a goto-fly for Many Danish as well as foreign coastal anglers.
Complete tying steps found here.

Baby Buggers

Small yet effective: Wooly buggers are one of the all time most effective fish catching flies. However, if you think you need heavy tackle and lots of lead to get them to work - think again. Peter Frailey tells about his "Baby Buggers", and how well they cast and fish.
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Bow River Bugger

Wooly Bugger and muddler: Al Grombacher has shared with us one of the most effective patterns for the Bow River in Alberta, Canada, famed for its excellent fishing for rainbow trout.
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