Hook: 3X long Bugger hook. I use Eagle Claw LO 58. size 8-14
Head: Gold brass bead, sized for hook size
Weight: Lead wire the same diameter as the hook shank, just enough to fill the recess in the bead.
Thread: 6/0-8/0 Fire Orange
Tail: Burnt Orange marabou with four strands of Copper Krystal Flash on each side.
Hackle: Brown, Furnace or Ginger, Palmered
Body: Copper Tinsel Chenille
Collar: Fire Orange Thread behind the bead head.
Details
I sometimes put eyes on the gold bead. Tie it like a Woolly Bugger, basically it is a copper bugger. Though I use this fly as my #1 searcher it is not really my fly. It was tied for me as a joke by Bob Root a pro tyer in 1995. I would not fish Woolly Bubbers, as he calls them. I changed my mind after this one. It is actually a copper bugger. To date I have taken approx. 2700 trout, bass and a number of other fish on it.
Pattern from of Anthony Spezio
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