Woolly Worm Dry

[mic]

I was watching a YouTube video of a guy on the San Juan fishing a traditional red tail woolly worm on a dry fly hook with dry fly hackle.  He was catching them on a river know for finicky fish.  Now it could be one of those days where everything works, or.... 

Does anyone on here do that.  Seems to me that there on times on the blue ribbons when the wilds really like big ugly dry flies.   Maybe I should try it. 

[Flysmallie]

I think it's worth a try. From what I keep seeing these finicky trout have no problem coming up and taking a bright colored thingamabobber. And yes some of these have been wild rainbows.

[snagged in outlet 3]

A long tome ago my little brother and I were fishing Taney.

He wanted use one of his own flies that he tied.

He was probably 8-10 years old and it was a big size 10 woolly they teach kids to tie first.

I thought no way they big honkin thing will catch fish.

First cast 22 inch rainbow bolted across the chute down from rebar and ate that thing.

We celebrated for days.

Pete

[trythisonemv]

I saw some guys using what they refered to as a big ugly during the Brown run two years ago. It seemed to be a double hackled crackle back. Resembled a wooly worm for sure and the guys were slaying the Brown's. 

[mic]

Interesting... Guess I should tie a couple and see how they do.  Worse come to worse, I could always drop a midge of the end of it.

 

[jdmidwest]

They used to call it a Montauk special.  Add a marabou tail to it and you have a woolly bugger streamer.

There are several catapillers that float on the water film when they fall in.  A dry woolly worm would make a good imitation.  Cracklebacks were originally designed to fish dry or stripped as a wet fly.

[grizzly]

My first fish on a fly I tied was on a black wooly worm on Roaring River.  I didn't know that wooly worms generally had weight   

[fishinwrench]

Brown bivisable!   Been a strong pattern for many years.  It was catching trout all over the country way before anyone ever heard of a Crackleback.

The original skater.