Why Would A Purple And Olive Green Woolybugger Catch Fish ?

[fishinSWMO]

I sometimes tell my non fishing friends that I am going trout fishing. "OK" they say ... I am going to a stream that is 40 degrees, putting on waders and wading out to my butt, tying on a really small artificail fly, throwing it out into the stream with a $ 300 fly rod, landing it and then admiring it and then releasing it back into the stream etc etc.

One of my friends once asked me "why" when I showed him the midges that I had tied for a upcoming trip. Honestly I may be dumber than the fish but few things are more relaxing to me and rewarding at the end of the day. I struggle to explain the why but who really need to understand the reason but me.

[Wayne SW/MO]

It seems like just when you think all the stocked fish are dumb, they throw in some that apperntly aren't.

[laker67]

It seems like just when you think all the stocked fish are dumb, they throw in some that apperntly aren't.

When they get tuff to catch, I just claim that I have already caught "all" of the dumber ones.

[Danoinark]

I struggle to explain the why but who really need to understand the reason but me.

Yes sir.

[ness]

I sometimes tell my non fishing friends that I am going trout fishing. "OK" they say ... I am going to a stream that is 40 degrees, putting on waders and wading out to my butt, tying on a really small artificail fly, throwing it out into the stream with a $ 300 fly rod, landing it and then admiring it and then releasing it back into the stream etc etc.

One of my friends once asked me "why" when I showed him the midges that I had tied for a upcoming trip. Honestly I may be dumber than the fish but few things are more relaxing to me and rewarding at the end of the day. I struggle to explain the why but who really need to understand the reason but me.

That's gonna lead to peace, satisfaction, contentment and happiness. The older (and presumably wiser) I get, the more value I place on that stuff.

[Trout Commander]

It seems like just when you think all the stocked fish are dumb, they throw in some that apperntly aren't.

It's not our fault they aren't smart enough to eat a perfect fly on a perfect drift.

[Bill Anderson]

I have friends, especially some older ones, who just can't understand the concept of catch and release fishing. They can not understand why anyone would catch fish, only to release them unharmed instead of eating them. I try to explain to them that I feel the cold water resource is a very limited one and that conserving trout is my way of helping to maintain it. But they, for the life of them, just don't get it and think I'm some kind of whacko-newcomer to fishing. When I tell them I have been flyfishing since the early 1960s, and flyfishing for trout since the late 1960s, they are even more surprised at my statements. Don't get me wrong, I love to eat bluegill and other sunfishes, including crappie that I catch, but I haven't purposely killed a trout since the 1980s.Yes, I will eat farm raised trout at a restaurant, and I don't rule out keeping a few trout for eating again, somewhere down the road, but for now, I get all the satisfaction I need from catching and releasing them.People enjoy birdwatching, and spend large amounts of money on binoculars and telescopes and camera lenses, and drive hundreds of miles in pursuit of their hobby. I guess I get the same enjoyment from flyfishing and also spend larges amounts of money on tackle and travel to pursue my passion. The thing we have in common with the birdwatchers: we don't kill and eat what we see/catch, but the satisfaction is much the same.

[Wayne SW/MO]

OK I'll ask, I've been tying for many decades and I'm having a hard time picturing an "olive/pearl/purple/grizzly woolybugger"?

Tail, body, hackle, hackle?

[timsfly]

OK I'll ask, I've been tying for many decades and I'm having a hard time picturing an "olive/pearl/purple/grizzly woolybugger"?

Tail, body, hackle, hackle?

With or without bead, I use a bead some, but a lot of times I just weight it with lead wire

#6-#16 hook 3Xlong is what I use most of the time

Black or blue 3/0 thread

Grizzly hackle

Purple tinsel chenille (most of the time)

olive marabou tail

Pearl/ dyed purple flash a bou

I the several of these for myself every year, I've had a few good fish on these at Taney

[Wayne SW/MO]

Flash a bou in the tail?