Bow River Bugger

Tied by Bob Collier

Black Thread

TMC #8 Streamer Hook

Large Gold or Smoke cone

Black Marabou Tail with Clear Crystal Flash

Olive Sculpin Chenille

Dun Hackle Palmered

Copper Wire counter wrapped

Deer Hair Collar spun and clipped.

Here is my contribution this year. I am using a picture of the fly I used for the pattern model. My work is still in need of some perfecting but I think you will find this a productive pattern. I found it is most effective when dead drifted and bounced off the bottom every so often. It is my understanding that the Sculpin which it is meant to mimic will flair its gill plates in a head down posture.

Crimp the barb and place the cone on hook. Wrap thread back to bend in hook. Attach marabou with 3-4 strands of Crystal Flash along side of tail. Tie in Copper wire, Hackle and leave long to wrap later. Tie in Chenille, wrap thread forward but leave enough bare hook just behind cone to spin the deer hair. Palmer the dun hackle forward tie off and counter wrap copper wire and tie off. Trim off about a pencil size clump of deer hair and stack so ends are even. Tie in with two loose wraps and then tighten and spin just behind the cone and in front of the chenille. Continue to fill in until head is full. Clip deer hair using the cone flare to shape the head leaving the collar extending back over the body.( it was the spinning and clipping that I need some work on but you should have seen the first 2 or 3 man they were a mess)>

I finished the fly with several half hitches behind the cone head.

In Montana we also fished a version with a white tail and cream body. I am sure you can come up with many combos, I am thinking an orange and brown for smallies!!