06-02-2012, 01:24 AM
I forgot to add some about tying them. Traditional is good, but there are lots of variations you can do. Beadhead sometimes and sometimes not, play with colors and color combinations, different types of yarn or dubbing even. If you don't have the exact materials, use whatever you can find. Most feathers have some "maribou" like fluff on the bottom. Colored craft store feathers have lots of good fluff you can use on buggers. I do lots of buggers without the hackle over the body. Or I put some of the maribou on the body. I must have caught well over a hundred fish yesterday on one bugger. It had a red body, a chartreuse tail, and no hackle. I fished it as a minnow. It didn't look like any minnow I have ever seen, but it got lots of fish. Again....Experiment. The fish don't care if it is exact.
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