Looks good!

wow I don't even want to tie in this after that pic...lol

do you guys prefer cone head or bead head?

Fly looks Good to me, cold!!

OK, can do!

Also, thanks for all the kind words, guys.

For those of you that put up with my horrendous, lumpy creations from the bugger swap last year, hopefully this'll make up for it.

chalk me down for a pink bugger 

haha. really though, i don't care.

Here's dru's pink fly:

Hot pink marabou tail, woven cream over metallic purple body, and red/pink hackle collar.

It should catch em...and be pretty visible. I'm thinking about running a bugger-nymph tandem in the early fall, and I might use a variation of that one with a PT off its back end.

Also, the buggers I'm tying up are tied on #6 Mustad up-eye salmon/steelhead hooks.

they look real good cold ff46

Ok here is a pic of the fly , 2 pics of same fly just dont know which background would show up better.

I didnt tie in the gold ribbing in this one but it sure adds pop to the fly. As I stated in my previous post help me to tie in the gold ribbing , it really will finish the fly off nice.

also what kind of background would be better to show the fly better or is my lighting all wrong?

GREAT LOOKIN BUGGERS GUYS!!! Man, I missed out on this swap big time!! Deetzy - What I've done in the past and I know what you mean with the ribbing - is wrap the tinsel or ribbing first and then palmer or wrap the hackle forward - following the edge of the tinsel or ribbing with the hackle. I'm sure others have a different way of doing it though. I hope my explaination is good enough.

My big thing with ribbing is that I only do it if I think I'll need it. With most flies, the answer is 'no', prince nymphs and Troth's Caddis being two notable exceptions. With herl, the answer is always 'YES!'

The whole point of ribbing, for me, is to wrap over the hackle stem, to keep fish teeth away. That means wrapping at a different interval than the hackle. Whether you counter-wrap (wrap the hackle back to the bend, then come up through with the wire) or just change the spacing of your wraps (to ensure they cross over the hackle), you'll have to deal with matting down some of the fibers. If you're careful, and 'wiggle' the wire, you give the fibers a chance to get out from underneath the wire's path, and a bodkin can lift any trapped fibers that have yet to be tightly bound down by the wire. Even at that, though, you'll probably end up tying down several fibers. As long as it isnt ridiculous, I dont think the fish will care.

ORIGINAL: Loomis

Looks like you leveled up in Tying ability, Dru....


Finally! 

haha screw you dude.
you still owe me about 20 stoneflies from that day at the club when i pasted them and you stood there in disbelief.

hahahahha ill show you how to paste em at the club....

And yeah, you remember that day???

"where were you back there did u get lost?"

"nahh, had to puke...."

Good times...

Hey guys, just wanted to post a heads-up that I put together a tutorial for that woven-body woolly bugger in the tutorials section.