Image via WikipediaI have a number of favorite flies for fly fishing brook trout and usually love dry flies over wet flies or nymphs but when the conditions don’t allow me to use my dry flies I turn to the Wooly Bugger which never seems to fail me.
My first experiences with the Wooly Bugger was the greatest and I was about to give up on it and started hauling it back to our canoe and that’s when I got the biggest strick of the day. Of course I can be a little thick as it didn’t sink in as to why that trout hit the fly.
I thought I would keep the Wooly Bugger on for a bit longer, give it another go as they say, but nothing. Was it just luck? Well I decided to change the fly and started hauling it in again and BAM another nice strick and then the lights came on.
I made another cast, let it sink just a bit and then I brought it back to the canoe about as fast as I could and the rest is history. I used that same Wooly Bugger for years even though it was pretty tattered but it was still catching brookies.
The Wooly Bugger is a very simple fly to tie and it doesn’t just catch brook trout.
I quess what I am creating is an artificial fly that looks like a nice long pulsating leech. We find them in all the fresh waters we fish here in New Brunswick.
