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How To Tie and Fish The Glass Bead, Black Metallic Bugger
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| Black Metallic Bugger |
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Originated by Joe Warren
Fly Type: Streamer
Concept of Imitation: Impressionistic to baitfish silhouette, leeches, large bugs
Hook: Daiichi 1720, 3x long nymph hook
Thread: Gudebrod mono 6/0, black 6/0 for tail and finish
Body: Five to six large rainbow gun metal glass Fly BeadsTM
Tail: Short stub of black poly yarn, black Arctic fox (length of shank), topped with optional UV pearl Krystal Flash
Hackle: Black chickabou or hen hackle
Comments: Another excellent color is olive tail with olive hackle using same color glass Fly BeadsTM as above.
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Black Metallic Bugger Fly Tying Steps
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| Tying Step 1. |
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| Step 1: Slide on 4-6 Fly BeadsTM onto the hook. Place hook in vise and slide the beads to the bend of the hook. Tie in thread behind the eye of the hook and cover shank, whip finish and cut thread.
Step 2: Slide the beads to the eye of the hook and retie thread behind beads and wrap hook shank to the bend. Tie in short clump of black poly yarn (to support tail material in preventing tail from twisting around hook during casting).
Step 3: Tie in black Arctic fox on top of the poly yarn, hair should be long as shank.
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| Tying Step 2. |
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| Tying Step 3. |
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Step 4: Tie in some Krystal Flash on top of the fox hair, separate fibers to sides of tail before making secure wraps.
Step 5: With thread just ahead of tail, tie in a hackle and wrap over the tail bundle to just in front of the hump of material. Note: I find using a narrow saddle hackle works well for this first hackle. Tie off and cut thread. Push back one bead, you should see the hackles flare towards to the tail, make sure bead is snug. Now tie in the mono tying thread in front the one bead.
Step 6: Tie in soft hackle with the mono thread, make about 3 wraps with the hackle and secure with the mono thread.
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| Tying Step 5. |
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Step 7: Once you have tied off the hackle, push bead into the hackle and hold with your index finer as shown. Bring the mono thread forward underneath the bead and tie several firm wraps.
Step 8: Note the shape and taper of the fly. Try to use the same hackle as you retie in between each bead. Select larger hackles as you go forward to keep expanding the taper.
Step 9: Repeat the process of adding hackle between the beads until you finish to the eye. Secure hackle behind eye of hook, whip finish and cut thread to complete fly.
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| Tying Step 8. |
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| Tying Step 9. |
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| Fishing The Black Metallic Bugger |
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| Patagonia Brown Trout Ready for Release |
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| Bronzeback smallmouth bass from the Columbia River |
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The Black Metallic Bugger is by far, my best catching glass bead fly. I have caught fish virtually everywhere in freshwater including numerous trout species, steelhead, smallmouth bass, walleye, and panfish. When there is no activity on the water to bring fish to the surface I use the Black Metallic Bugger to hunt with. With either an Air Flo DI7 shooting head, or the Quick Max super fast sink tip, I'll search around drop offs, points, and/or back eddies, in 10-20 feet of water. This fly caters to BIG fish too, as seen in the adjacent photos. Use about a 6-8-foot leader to minimum 8 lb. test, preferably fluorocarbon. In deep, slow moving water, fish the fly on the swing with occasional line strips. In still water, try slow, long pulls with a combination of short and rapid line strips. Make sure to give the fly plenty of time to sink in the deep zone. Also, when tying this fly for bass, I like to use the Daiichi 2720, wide-gape stinger hook in nickel.
If you fish this pattern, drop me a line (and photo if possible) and let me know how it works for you.
Good Fishing,
Joe Warren
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