Great Memories of Grassy Lake With Friends

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at 8:46 am

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I have been fishing Grassy Lake in New Brunswick for many years and have always enjoy fly fishing here over my spinning gear. There have been many days that it just tends to get too windy to enjoy so we either switch to spinners or we move to a different place that’s more protected from the wind.

My favourite and most productive artificial fly is the Woolly Bugger. It resembles a leech and works like magic if you know how to fish it. It took me to the point of giving up on the Woolly Bugger before I found that pattern that worked.

I was getting pretty frustrated with the Woolly Bugger and finally just decided to try something else and started stripping it in a lot faster than I was fishing it and BAM I hooked and landed a nice little brookie. So I thought I would give it another try.

The same thing happened, nothing, nothing, I finally gave up and started stripping in really fast to change the fly and BAM another brookie. I maybe slow but I eventually catch on.

I cast my Woolly Bugger out toward some lily pads and immediately started stripping back to the canoe and that was it. The Woolly Bugger works almost every time.

So much fun.

Here are a couple of videos. The first will show you how you can tie your own Wooly Bugger and the second will show you how to fish it so you don’t have to fumble around trying to get it right on your own.

Tying The Wooly Bugger