Conehead Woolly Bugger
Description
The Conehead Woolly Bugger is a weighted streamer that suggests leeches, small baitfish, and large aquatic nymphs. The brass cone helps it reach deeper runs, lake edges, and reservoir drop-offs, and gives the fly a diving action when stripped or swung.
Materials
- hook: 3X Long Streamer Hook
- thread: Black 6/0 Thread
- body: Black Chenille
- head finish: Black Head Lacquer
- tail: Black Marabou
- hackle: Black Saddle Hackle
- head and weight: Brass Cone Head
- ribbing: Extra-Small Copper Ultra Wire
Tying Instructions
- 1.
Pinch the hook barb, slide the brass cone onto the hook with its cavity facing rearward, and seat it against the eye before securing the hook in the vise.
- 2.
Start the thread immediately behind the cone and wrap a firm thread dam to hold it against the eye.
- 3.
Lay a thread base back to the bend, stopping above the hook point.
- 4.
Tie in a black marabou tail at the bend, keeping it about one hook-shank length and securing the butts forward to build an even underbody.
- 5.
Tie in the copper wire along the near side of the shank with the wire extending rearward from the bend.
- 6.
Strip the fibers from the base of a black saddle hackle and tie the stem in at the bend with the dull side facing the hook shank.
- 7.
Tie in the black chenille at the bend and advance the thread to the rear of the cone.
- 8.
Wrap the chenille forward in touching turns to form an even body, then secure and trim it behind the cone.
- 9.
Palmer the saddle hackle forward in evenly spaced turns and secure it behind the cone.
- 10.
Counter-wrap the copper wire forward through the hackle, rocking it between fibers, then secure and helicopter off the excess.
- 11.
Sweep the hackle fibers rearward and build a short, neat thread collar against the cone.
- 12.
Whip finish behind the cone and apply head cement to the thread collar.