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

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Simi Seal Leech

Apr 12. 2018
Using Arizona Simi Seal dubbing for a Leech is one of my go to patterns. It comes in so many colors and there are so many variations it makes it hard not to fill a box.
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Fuzzy Bugger

Apr 7. 2018
Part Woolly Bugger and part Fuzzy Wuzzy. Started out as a Woolly Bugger tied with the cool speckled Whiting Coq De Leon hen feathers.
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MS Bugger

Oct 7. 2016
When it comes to successful patterns, sometimes less is more, and it sure seems that way on the MS Bugger.
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Bow River Bugger

May 22. 2016
The Bow River Bugger is a great western streamer pattern. The Bow River Bugger can be fished both on the dead drift and also stripped as a streamer.
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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
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Crystal Conehead Woolly Bugger

Jan 1. 2013
Two Minute Fly Tying: The Crystal Conehead Woolly Bugger
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Wooly Bugger Patterns

Jun 15. 2011
Theme page Woolly Buggers, Baby Buggers, Wooly Worms - one of the most common, popular, effective. easiest and widespread patterns in the world. All our best articles on Woolly Buggers.
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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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The White

May 16. 2009
Simplicity The White is a stable pattern in originator Rasmus Hansen's coastal sea trout flybox, He uses it as a provocation (read: attractor) or as a shrimp imitation, and prefers it for turbulent water and autumn fishing. The fly is simple, one color only, and one of these universal flies that can catch anything.
Tie along here
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Magnus

Jan 7. 2009
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.
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The Grey Fred

Nov 22. 2008
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
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Kai's Green Terror

Nov 12. 2007
Ugly If one day you should lie on the bank pounding your fists into the sand in frustration over the lack of fish and someone sneaks around the corner offering you a chartreuse coloured fly, perhaps it's German Kai Nolting who brings you the fly that will save your day:
Kai's Green Terror

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