Buggers

Flies tied in the Woolly Bugger style with a bushy tail and a palmered body hackle

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The Magnus and Fred Clan Sep 6. 2019 Kinship The classical Danish coastal flies Magnus and Grey Fred have been an inspiration for many derivative patterns as well as hybrids. This is their story. See all the patterns here	Lynx' Whisker Mar 7. 2016 Lure This is a new take on another new take on the classic British stillwater pattern the Cat's Whisker See how to tie it here
Wooly Bugger Patterns Jun 15. 2011 Theme page Woolly Buggers, Baby Buggers, Wooly Worms See the theme here	The Perfect Woolly Jan 23. 2010 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

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Video Soft Wooly Bugger Jun 30. 2022 Wooly buggers are one of the most popular streamers ever created. You can actually fish them as nymphs or streamers.	Video Grey Fred - Grå Frede Jan 13. 2022 With a few simple materials you can create a lot - and "Grå Frede" is an excellent example of that.	Video David's Bugger Dec 29. 2021 It does not always have to be complicated to be effective - allmost quite the contrary. One of the most all-round flies has to be the classic Wooly Bugger which has fooled fish all over the world.
Video Captain America Nov 25. 2021 Zero Gravity Dubbing Balanced Leech Fly Pattern Tutorial Materials: Hook: Ahrex FW550 size 6 Thread: Semperfli 6/0 waxed thread Bead: Firehole 3.0 Tungsten Gold	Video Olive Polar Magnus Oct 28. 2021 When talking about classic flies for chasing sea-run brown around the coasts of Scandinavia, the island of Funen in Denmark has produced many of the classics.	Video Thin Mint Bugger Oct 9. 2021 Detailed instructions for tying a Thin Mint Bugger.
Video Black Woolly Bugger Oct 5. 2021 One of the most well-known and all-around flies must be the Wooly Bugger.	Video Gulff Magnus Sep 27. 2021 One of the most classic flies for fishing the salt around Denmark and other places in Scandinavia must be the grey/grizzly palmerhackled fly called “Magnus” - a fly that has caught hundreds - or th	Video Wiggle Worm Aug 2. 2021 Even the most fanatic flyfisher just have to admit that worm-fishing properly is one of the most effective methods overall.
Video Mottled Leach Jul 18. 2021 The Mottled Leach is a small worm fly with a weighted head and marabou tail which give the fly a very lively movement in both still as well as running water.	Video Magic Bugger Jun 28. 2021 The Wooly Bugger is proberbly one of the most versatile flies ever invented. The long soft tail made of marabou and the palmerhackle give this fly the movement a few fish can resist.	Video Karat Fly Jun 16. 2021 There are plenty of big fish coming out of the larger Stillwaters. I would bet a pound to a pinch of salt they are falling to patterns not dissimilar to this!
Video Polar Magnus May 27. 2021 The black and grey colors of the grizzly combined with at pink collar is the key-ingredient of the famous Polar Magnus - one of the most popular flies for the danish coastal flyfishing for sea-run	Video Black Woolly Bugger Apr 6. 2021 Henry Ford once said about the color of his first carmodel (the Ford Model T) that the customers could have “any color so long as it is black”.	Video White Cat Mar 31. 2021 One of my variants of the ever popular Cats Whisker fly . The cats whisker will catch fish anywhere . Its great fly for pulling on the sinking lines Hook - B175 10

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