Tippets: Vedavoo’s Reel Service Raffle, History of the Woolly Bugger

September 24, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • Vedavoo has once again paired its products with the best artists in the fly fishing industry. The annual raffle benefits the work of Project Healing Waters and their support of military veterans. Artists include: Derek DeYoung, Ad Maddox, Andrea Larko, Paul Puckett, Eric Hornung, Jeff Kennedy, Jonathan Marquardt, Josh Udesen, Ty Hallock, and Jared Nielson. The “Reel Service” raffle is slated to run through December 31, 2015.
  • The Woolly Bugger is one of the most popular as well as effective flies of all time. But its creator, Russell Blessing, was not as widely known. His son, Fred Blessing, sits down for an interview about his father and his famous fly pattern in an article on Fly Rod & Reel.