Fishing Flies: Woolly Bugger as Depth Charge

May 21, 2006 By: Marshall Cutchin

Fly Fishing and Tying Journal editor Dave Hughes recently referred irreverently to fishing Woolly Buggers as ‘depth-charging’ trout. ‘It’s a terrible thing to do, and I’m ashamed when it works,’ Hughes quipped.” Ben Moyer talks about the perpetual effectiveness of the Woolly Bugger in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Post-Gazette.