So I went to the fly shop at Bass Pro Shops in Katy and found that they had no yellow bead head wooly buggers in stock. At $2 bucks a pop I really didn't want to buy the flies anyway, so I got the materials and tied my own. The next day I took a 7.5 ft 5 weight out to a local bayou and tried out the yellow buggers. Had a blast honing my crappie catching skills. Picked up a little catfish and a couple sunfish too.

Well done!

Once you start tying it gets really hard to pay someone $2 per fly...

Cool

Nice. What size hooks and bead? Tungsten, brass or something else? All marabou or is there chennile around the shank? Looks like something I want to copy for personal use!

White River Fly Shop Size 10 3X long all purpose hook, 1/8" diameter WAPSI gold bead, yellow marabou, medium yellow chenille, and olive hackle. I wrap the hook shank about halfway with lead wire for added weight. I used white hackle on the two flies pictured above, but I think the olive hackle gives a bit of contrast and texture to the yellow. I'll probably tie a number of different combinations using different hackle and chenille colors with yellow or fluorescent yellow marabou.

Thanks. .

Good Job

More beadhead buggers to stock the fly box.


Tied a crystal bugger using 1/8" black nickle bead on #10 hook with white marabou, pearl chenille, pearl krystal flash, and gray hackle

nice flies

Adding to the collection and restocking the fly box. I decided to tie a few bead head buggers in popular crappie jig colors. Black n yellow seems to be a good color combo for muddy waters.

Those look excellent!! Black and Chartreuse is one of my favorite color patterns. I actually tied up some black & chartreuse briminator variants a couple days ago. I was planning on tying up some woolly buggers in that pattern as well. These give me a little motivation, well done.

I couldn't resist buying a $5 mood puffer ball so I could cut off some tentacles and try them on the back of a wooly bugger. I think this is the first time I ever tied something and went straight out to fish it while the glue was still wet. I caught a couple of crappie as a proof test. Black and yellow helps a fellow fish muddy waters.





I had to share the bank with a gator today.