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    Default Baby Buggers

    Does anyone use or tie Wooly Buggers size 16 and smaller? If so, how successful have they been?

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    Thumbs up Smallish....

    For my use, a small Wooly Bugger wouldn't be much different than fishing a Griffiths Gnat, wet. Not sure why I'd want tie one that small....
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    Thanks Darian. Where are you from? There seems to be some interest in smaller buggers for the smaller streams in MO. I think a size 16 may be ideal on a 4 wt rod. I haven't tried it yet. It is hard to find those sizes for buggers. I love fishing with buggers and I might give it a try. Thanks.

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    Thumbs up Buggerzzzzzz....

    I'm from Sacramento, CA (I know there's a Sacramento in the mid-west, too).

    I'm sure there's someone around here that uses small buggers but aren't saying much about it. I just can't see a reason to make an effective, simple fly (the gnat) more complex by tying the same size with a tail and rib. Of course, there're size 16 hooks that're longer shanked than others making a size 16 into a size 14 fly.

    Since I never tie on anything smaller than a size 18 hook, I'm probably the wrong person to listen to....
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    The smallest buggers I fish are 12 and 14s. I don't think there would be much benefit to tying em any smaller than 16s. Just my 2 cents... But give it a shot and let us know how they work for you.

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    Palmering hackle that small sounds tough compared to just a scruffy dubbed body with a marabou tail. It sounds like wet fly fishing, imitating insects rather than bait fish.

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    The wooly bugger is such an effective fly I couldn't see why such a small version couldn't be effective. Almost every single species of fish I have caught has succumbed to the wooly bugger, the most exotic would be tarpon and snook. I specially tied some saltwater buggers to test out my idea that anything will try to eat a bugger.

    If the size 16 is tied correctly (more than likely very sparely) then i would bet it could be effective.

    Has anyone else here caught some unlikely species on a bugger?
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    http://www.diablovalleyflyfish.org/f...roe_leech.html

    I fish this fly in sizes down to #12's. Have have good success on Fall River and many lakes. My favorites are olive and maroon.
    Fishing is always good, the catching may not be.

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    Nice Jay, is that a Gar?
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