John -
I like to use short webby hackle feathers on my buggers. I make sure that
I am into the fluffy 'marabou-like' part at the base of the feather when I
get to the head of the fly and try to make at least a wrap or two with it
to form a soft collar.
- Gary
P.S. When are you planning to start the "Bugger Testing" that you mentioned
a couple of months ago?
- g~
At 07:05 AM 02/08/2002, you wrote:
>When you guys tie woolly buggers, do you make the palmered hackle thick or
>sparse, hen hackle or rooster? Just curious. I usually tie mine up with
>two hen hackles, I like them bushy like that, but I awas wondering if I
>would have even better luck fishing them sparse. I once tied some without
>a palmered body, just one hen hackle as a collar. Out fished most of my
>other ones. But I have not really fished that pattern enough to test it
>out right.
>
>Let me know
>JOhn
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