How The WOOLY BUGGER Became the Most Popular Fishing Fly!

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  • In this video, Brian Flechsig from Mad River Outfitters breaks down the Wooly Bugger and how it became the most popular fishing fly of all time.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 77

  • @sarablessingdavis2841
    @sarablessingdavis2841 Рік тому +44

    Thanks for giving credit to my Grandpop, Russell Blessing! Would love to tell the story about how it came out!

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому +15

      Come on over to the shop and let’s make a video. Or we could get you on a Zoom as a guest? Call or e-mail Brian at the shop. Would be super cool!

    • @sarablessingdavis2841
      @sarablessingdavis2841 Рік тому +13

      That would be wonderful! I will send an email, thank you!

  • @goldentwilight1944
    @goldentwilight1944 Рік тому +5

    Great tribute to the woolly bugger. I caught my first fly-caught fish on one, and it also caught my biggest trout.

  • @kogabear1
    @kogabear1 Рік тому +3

    The wooly bugger and royal coachman are my two favorite flies to tie and fish. Both seem to have endless variations, size and colors. I’ve tied them from nymph size to large salmon flys. Fun video thanks.

  • @BJDrury-u1p
    @BJDrury-u1p Рік тому +1

    Great rundown on the wooly bugger. I caught 11 trout at Bennett Springs in 2 hours a couple of weeks ago on a black bead head bugger. The next day I caught 3 small bass and several bluegill on the same fly. A versatile fly.

  • @CR-ji4ub
    @CR-ji4ub Рік тому +2

    I just got home from Bennett. Great memories there, as well as Montauk State park in Missouri.

  • @SmallmouthAddict
    @SmallmouthAddict 9 місяців тому +1

    As a part time smallmouth bass guide here in Michigan, I can confidently claim that a weightless olive wooly bugger fished off an intermediate or sinking line is probably the most productive set up for numbers of fish on my home river.. Also very easy to cast, and is a great fly to teach beginners. Fish it slow, fish it fast, it doesn't matter. Girlfriend pulled a tank this year while learning ~21in on a simple size 4.

  • @wingman8447
    @wingman8447 Рік тому +3

    I tie a mini bugger in a 14. Copper bead in olive. Works amazingly well. Good vid. Thanks

  • @waltmichaels6395
    @waltmichaels6395 Рік тому +1

    Great update on a fly fave……even better fly though! Thanks Pop Blessing !!!!!!

  • @matthadenmusic
    @matthadenmusic Рік тому +2

    i not only always have buggers on me, i actually ALWAYS have an entire, two sided bugger box in my pack. Bead and cone heads on one side, lead only on the other. You can just do so much with them.

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому +1

      Agreed! Everyone should have a “bugger box”. Thanks for watching.

  • @chunkylover54
    @chunkylover54 Рік тому +1

    i had some extra material after making some bigger flies last week and decided to tie up a bugger and I landed the biggest fish of the trip with it. a size 4 bugger caught a tank of a smallie off my parents dock after breakfast haha good times

  • @ethanovenell2173
    @ethanovenell2173 Рік тому +1

    the woolly bugger is by far my favorite fly to both tie and fish. the variations are endless. my favorites are the dumbbell or bead chain eye woolly buggers in olive, schlappin buggers, 3x long olive or brown, and the traditional in black.

  • @silverbird425
    @silverbird425 Місяць тому

    Ha! Your funny video sounds like something my husband would say with a smirk and a laugh on his face.

  • @Wildtr0ut
    @Wildtr0ut Рік тому +1

    Nicely done...thanks for the update.

  • @edwardsieferman1205
    @edwardsieferman1205 Рік тому +2

    Couldn't agree more. I live in western Indiana; no trout in our streams but LOTS of smallies. I never throw anything other than the Wooly Bugger. I prefer olive (to replicate sculpin), orange (to mimic crayfish), and black, which stands in for either a hellgrammite OR a leech...

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому +1

      Hard to beat that! Thanks for watching.

    • @markt5450
      @markt5450 Рік тому +1

      Do you drift it or fish it like a streamer?

    • @edwardsieferman1205
      @edwardsieferman1205 Рік тому

      @@markt5450 Personally I have never drifted one; I always fish them as a streamer. With that said, I was intrigued by the last Wooly Bugger pattern Brian displayed that was tied to the jig head.

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому

      @@edwardsieferman1205 Try drifting or jigging!

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому

      @@markt5450 stay tuned, more to come.

  • @nate5811
    @nate5811 Рік тому +2

    Nice shout out to Bennett springs state park in Lebanon missouri. Yeah it’s a trout park but I’ve fished all sorts of larger world known trout rivers like the white river but you can’t beat Bennett spring for catching trout. You have all types of water through the park from quick moving water, to deeper holes to shallow rock beds with pockets to deep bath tub like water to ‘just below the dam’ waters. All accessible by either wading or bank fishing. Sure the trout are stockers but a trout is a trout once it’s on the hook. They still eat at the hatch and all sorts of natural bugs down there. Missouri dept of conservation does a tremendous job of raising trout and keeping the sizes up for great catches. No small trout at the parks. Missouri doesn’t have native trout anymore so they do a great job with what we have. Yes there are rivers outside the park with wild but not native trout so don’t knock Missouri trout parks until you’ve visited one. Great vidya mr. Fleischig keep up the great work you do, hope I spelled your name right.

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for watching. Mr. Flechsig grew up fishing at Bennett Springs.

    • @nate5811
      @nate5811 Рік тому +1

      @@Madriveroutfitters very cool! headed there the 19th!

    • @CR-ji4ub
      @CR-ji4ub Рік тому

      ⁠​⁠@@nate5811I just got back from Bennett. We did well. I will say that it was a little tougher since they shut down the hatchery.

    • @nate5811
      @nate5811 Рік тому

      That’s true. Growing pains. It will be really nice once it’s done in a few years.

  • @brian1204
    @brian1204 Рік тому +2

    So, the wooly worm is a Blessing? 😉
    I first started fly fishing in Colorado around 1968 or 69, and I had heard about the wooly worm and started tying them. Didn’t hear about a wooly bugger until the early 80’s (after college, first job, etc and getting back into fishing).
    A black ice chenille bugger caught my first flyrod smallmouth bass.

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому

      Thanks for watching! Much appreciated.

    • @TedJ71
      @TedJ71 Рік тому +1

      That’s about the same time I first saw it in Pa. Before that in from late 60’s on was fishing wooly worms, with a large egg sac of glo bug yarn. They worked good for the Cohos that were being stocked in Lake Erie back then. Great video Brian!

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому

      @@TedJ71 thanks for watching.

  • @paulcannell7188
    @paulcannell7188 2 місяці тому

    established in 1967, just like me! Must be good. Seriously though, just getting into learning, so when I tie something sharp on the leader, the wooly bugger is my 1st choice.

  • @carolinawoods-n-water4392
    @carolinawoods-n-water4392 Рік тому +2

    My favorite fly of all time!

  • @OscarOverlanding
    @OscarOverlanding Рік тому

    Thank you!

  • @deankrueger7178
    @deankrueger7178 Рік тому

    Sooooo, American made???? No way! Lol. Thanks for the great update/ correction!!!

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому

      Yes.....American made.....or at least American designed. Thanks for watching.

  • @dmm3124
    @dmm3124 Рік тому

    When is Brian's book coming out? Or, did I miss it.

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому

      You’d have to check with him on that. We haven’t heard anything lately.

  • @fairladyz9957
    @fairladyz9957 Рік тому

    What size should I get for a 4wt rod

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  Рік тому

      The size that the fish want to eat…..as Brian would say! Feel free to call or e-mail the shop with any further questions. They are always happy to help.

  • @jtmarshall
    @jtmarshall Рік тому

    I went to yellowstone with black wooley buggers and didnt catch a thing..
    well except the fly fishing fever.. i caught that alright lmao

  • @sigurdurmarolafsson4183
    @sigurdurmarolafsson4183 Рік тому

    For a long time it ( or just about the same fly was called a " dog nobbler" here in Europe.

  • @kansasscout4322
    @kansasscout4322 11 місяців тому

    Bennett Springs!

  • @johnnylightning1491
    @johnnylightning1491 Рік тому +1

    I guess I was right I was thinking they were the most popular fly because they catch fish. I guess I guessed right.

  • @marklmusic7299
    @marklmusic7299 Рік тому

    In British chalk streams they are not allowed believe it or not...

  • @Kitiwake
    @Kitiwake 5 місяців тому

    A large stone fly larvae.

    • @Madriveroutfitters
      @Madriveroutfitters  5 місяців тому

      Stonefly would be a nymph....not a larva......just to be correct. Thanks for watching.

  • @marklmusic7299
    @marklmusic7299 Рік тому

    only fly I fish! Catch anything on this fly steelhead, bass, carp, etc...

  • @andykjohnsonjohnson7622
    @andykjohnsonjohnson7622 Рік тому

    👍🎣

  • @creativeexperience6388
    @creativeexperience6388 6 місяців тому

    I was like 1k

  • @tamont
    @tamont Рік тому

    First!

  • @johnkenny694
    @johnkenny694 Рік тому

    They should be BANNED!! off all rivers.