I primarily fish two versions of this fly one is dark and drab and imitates the natural insects living in the bluegill’s world. Wooly worms can be tied in just about any color or combinations of colors that your heart desires. It is easily mastered, and it catches fish. The wooly worm is one of the first flies tied by our students in our fly tying classes. It is super easy to tie and uses only a few materials. The wooly worm is the perfect fly for the beginning fly tier to try. In the warm water arena, those large aquatic insects would be damsel and dragon fly nymphs, but it could just as easily be taken for a small baitfish or crayfish. The wooly worm was designed to imitate large aquatic insects like stoneflies, hellgrammites, etc. The wooly bugger imitates many aquatic life forms, but most folks fish it as a baitfish imitation. The quintessential wooly bugger was a spin off of the wooly worm. Flies with a palmered hackle down the entire hook shank have been documented as far back as the 1500’s. The wooly worm is a style of fly that may date back hundreds of years. Just imagine your holding wooly bugger with out a tail, or at most a small tag of yarn in place of the tail. Anyone familiar with a wooly bugger will recognize a wooly worm immediately. Coming from the same bloodline, it is just as effective as it is more famous relative. The wooly worm is a predecessor to one of the most popular and effective flies ever invented, the wooly bugger.
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