Woolly bugger

The woolly bugger is possibly the most commonly used fly.  It can imitate anything from leaches to bait fish.

Materials needed:
Hook:  Any standard streamer hook with a 3x long hook shank.  Sizes #6-14 are popular.
Bead:  (optional) a properly sized bead to fit your hook, any color.
Weight:  10+ wraps of lead wire.
Thread:  Olive 8/0 UNI thread.
Tail:  Olive marabou with some olive midge flash tied on either side.
Body:  Olive chenille.

 Place your bead on the hook, and the hook in the vise.

Wrap 10 or so wraps of lead wire, and push the wraps into the end of the bead.

Start your thread just behind the thread wraps.












Wrap your thread across the thread wraps to lock them in place.

Select a piece of marabou to tie in as a tail.

If you wet the marabou, it is much easier to work with.

Tie in your tail.  The length should equal the length of the hook shank.

Trim the butt end of the tail so it butts up to the lead wraps, then secure the tail with several tight thread wraps.

Tie in 4 strands of olive midge flash on the side of the tail.

Do the same on the other side of the tail.

Tie in a piece of olive chenille.  

Start tying it in just behind the bead so the body stays a uniformed size, and you don't have any clumps anywhere. 

Wrap the chenille forward, and tie it off.

Tie in a piece of olive hackle.

Wrap your thread to your tail like you would wrap a rib.

Wrap your hackle to the tail on top of the thread wraps you just laid down.

Now wrap your thread forward to lock the hackle in place.  Move your thread up and down so you don't trap too many fibers.

Whip finish.