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Mini Bugger

Tied on #10 light wire hooks, weighted.
Body: Sage Green chenille
Hackle: Top half, rooster neck hackle (bottom half used on soft hackle fly- two flies, one feather!)
Tail: Tuft of fluorescent yellow acrylic yarn.
Thread: 6/0 Uni thread.
I've been pondering a small Wooly Bugger, more like a bluegill mouthful. This may be it. If nothing, it certainly is "wooly."

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Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on December 7, 2013 at 11:27am: Thanks, Bluto
Years of model building make me inclined to see things in "small" proportions.
I'm always figuring out how to make large things in miniature.
This Wooly Bugger/Worm is one example. The traditional size for these is twice as big, maybe more. But I downsized things on this one. I added some weight in the head area with a lead wire underbody, hopefully to gain a little control over the thing. Often, when you shrink things like this, they don't behave the same as the big versions.

Comment by james bluto gillette on December 7, 2013 at 11:16am: very nice mc scruff

Comment by John Sheehan on December 7, 2013 at 9:07am: Ok thanks guys !

Comment by Mark Sleeper on December 7, 2013 at 8:22am: nice David looks fishy.

Comment by dick tabbert on December 7, 2013 at 8:15am: John don't really know if the spelling is correct but palmering is the feather wrapped around the hook in most cases give the fish an illusion of legs being present which is the reasoning of most flies being wrapped above the abdomen which is a way of legs being present.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on December 7, 2013 at 7:10am: If I may answer, John, "palmering" is the act of wrapping something (usually a hackle feather) along the length of a hook. It results in a forward, spiral wrapped ring of feather barbs dashing the body of a fly. It is most often thought of in conjunction with the "Wooly Worm/ Wooly Bugger" patterns, mainly because of their popularity. But it is quite old as techniques go, dating back at least a couple hundred years.
In the case if my mini Wooly, here, I tied in the body material (chenille), and the hackle feather at the rear, in reverse order - hackle first, then chenille. Next, I spiral wrapped the chenille forward to just behind the eye. This was followed by the spiral wrapped hackle, "palmered" in other words. This results in the caterpillar like hairs of the fly.
Finally everything is tied of and a thread head added.

Comment by John Sheehan on December 7, 2013 at 6:52am: Looks great David !Dick ,what's palmering?

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on December 7, 2013 at 6:44am: Thanks, Lucky.
This thing is only 3/4" long, I might add.
The hackle is not ideal, as it is probably a tad too long. I work with what I have, you know?
But I got the long in front-shorter in back effect I was after. I've since hit on a method to make a much neater head, so future Mini Buffers well use that.
I appreciate the kind words.