Tying a Jig Bugger

In this video I tie and discuss my favorite point fly, the jig bugger. I often fish the fly when tight line nymphing, but I also frequently fish it under an indicator, and sometimes jig or strip it as a micro streamer. I fish it from size 8-12 and in olive, brown, and black. However, the olive size 10 is the version i fish the most by far. A bonus nugget of information: the smaller feathers in a pheasant tail clump, despite being thick stemmed and tough to wrap, make a very cool looking substitution for the soft hackle at the front. Putting the fibers of these feathers in a dubbing loop and trimming off the stem can make them much easier to wrap. Materials: Hook - MFC jig hook size 10 Bead - Firehole 4.0mm slotted tungsten bead Thread - Semperfli 6/0 olive Tail - Whiting Farms chickabou in grizzly died olive Rib - Semperfli 0.2mm wire in bright damsel green Body - Hareline laser dub in olive Legs - olive barred rubber legs Collar - Whiting Farms red label hen saddle in grizzly died olive https://littleriveroutfitters.com/pages/events/calendar.htm #flyfishing #flytying #flytyingaddict #jigflies #euroflies #nymph #streamer #trout #nationalpark #abramscreek #WhitingFarms #MFC #Hareline #Firehole #Semperfli