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Summary: Materials and tools needed to tie a woolly bugger for fly fishing. Learn how to go fly fishing with a woolly bugger fly in this free video on fly tying.
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Alvin Dedeaux Alvin Dedeaux has been a fly fishing guide and casting instructor for 12 years, and has been fly fishing for 32 years. He is a graduate of the first Joan Wul... read more
Ok, so here's the basic tools and materials for tying this Woolly Bugger. We're going to use a hook obviously. And we're going to use marabou for the tail, black marabou, it's turkey feathers. Then we're going to use for the body, we're going to use a black chenille and then we're going to palmer it with this black hackle. This is a chicken feather. Black thread, just to match the rest of the fly. And then our tools, we're going to use are the scissors for cutting materials and the thread. Whip finisher for finishing it off at the end. And a hackle plier for grasping that black hackle. And pliers to mash the barb down on the hook. Now we're making a, just a basic black woolly bugger, but there's a lot of other options. You could make it into other colors; you could make it in white, brown, olive. Basically, just change the materials that you're using. They don't even necessarily have to all be the same color. You can make a black woolly bugger with a olive body. The other thing you can do is you can put weighted dumb bell eyes on it to make it a little bit heavier. And there's even some synthetic materials. Like this is a synthetic Mylar in place of the chenille. Or here's fox fur for a tail instead of the marabou. So there's a lot of different variations that you can do on this basic black woolly bugger.