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Bug Eyed Bugger

Tried this today.

Hook - # 8 Aberdeen
Body - Small, gold flash chenille
Tail - white marabou
Eyes - 6/0 Glass beads, mounted on a melted broom bristle.
(Same technique as making mono eyes, but add the beads and then melt the plastic. I let it catch fire and then run all the way to the bead - once it gets there, the fire goes out and the gob of plastic hardens. Do this on both sides to keep the beads secure.)

Just a Wooly Bugger, with them big eyes added.

I've been reading the works of Bill Byrd lately and am looking at streamer/minnow patterns right now. Mr. Byrd is a proponent of subsurface patterns for bluegill, something I've thought important myself.
Most bluegill fishermen focus on the surface bite, but get a little shy when the fish go deeper.... and deep patterns and techniques become important.
Lately I've worked on these:
- Briminator
- MM Minnow
- Cypert Minnow
(the last two thanks to Don Schmotzer)

Now its the Bug Eyed Bugger. I'll add a few to my box and see what they do.

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Comment by Donald Schmotzer on January 31, 2014 at 9:11am: I like this one, I have some round ball stick pins in different colors that would make similar eyes by clipping the pins to the proper length then tying to the hook with a figure 8 wrap. I will tie a few and post a picture. On standard length hooks size 10 and 12, I think these will be deadly............Kind puts a little "twist" on the ole woolly -bugger..............Don

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 31, 2014 at 8:33am: Thanks maestro!

Comment by Vince Fusco on January 31, 2014 at 7:53am: I like it a lot, McScruff! Great tie!!!

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 31, 2014 at 7:16am: I also read an old trick is to remove the last 1" of the marabou feather, before tying it in as a tail. This apparently gives a livelier tail.

Comment by Allen Morgan on January 31, 2014 at 6:01am: Another thing I do, on smaller hooks, is that I don't use the entire feather. I will clip off some of the barbs on one side of the marabou feather shaft. Keeping the tips even requires a steady hand, especially when you go to bunch them together. Then, tie the bundle in, and rope-dub that little bit. Results in a thinner body.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 31, 2014 at 4:21am: Thanx men. I forgot to mention the hook is bent towards the bend, just behind the eye. The BEB will then ride point up - you're actually seeing it upside down, here.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on January 30, 2014 at 10:20pm: Looks like you're doing extremely well with flies David.

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on January 30, 2014 at 8:02pm: Great adaptation of an old pattern David , CONGRATS ON A NICE BUG !!!!

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 30, 2014 at 7:33pm: Great minds think alike, Fuzzy. That is what I did, with variation.

Instead of rope wrapping, I cut off the marabou butt to the back of the eyes. Then, I wrapped the thread up the hook, trapping the marabou butt beneath. This gives a light body with a hint of "under ribbing. Yet, the body ends up very sparse. I will try the complete rope wrap on future attempts.

Thanks for thinking this through with me and offering your great ideas.

Comment by Allen Morgan on January 30, 2014 at 7:28pm: Scruff, if you go to a smaller hook, and you want to omit the chenille, try the rope-dub thing that I've been doing lately. Once you tie in the marabou tail, instead of cutting the feather off, twist the feather into a "rope", and wind that around the hook, then tie off and cut. Then wrap the hackle, and counter-wrap with ribbing.