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Fishing Wooly Bugger Leech Hybrid flies (Spokane)

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condition: new

make / manufacturer: Dennis

model name / number: many types for many species

size / dimensions: size 16 to size 2

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This year Amber , Medical and Liberty Lake are opening in early March for fishing. Amber and Medical Lake have special regulations for fishing so avoid issues and please read them. I have fished Amber for 50 plus years and Medical Lake for 20 plus years. I have had so much fun catching and releasing large numbers of rainbows at Amber and Browns at Medical Lake with just 3 fly patterns. The. style of fishing is completely different at each lake even though the same fly design is being used. The old standard wooly bugger changed into a hybrid bugger leech design is so effective at both lakes. I used 2 different colors. The wine color coupled with medium to semi stiff black hackle that causes the fly to slightly spin ( Rotate ) on the retrieve is irresistible at Amber. Let me back up and explain about the wine color. One of the fishes main food source in Amber are small blood worms which tend to be the wine color and seem to be in the water most of the time. The other year around source are leeches in varied colors. The leeches spin , ungulate and rotate as the swim in the water. When you combine the color and rotation at Amber you catch and release a lot of fish. Use with at least a 9 foot tapered leader and at the very least 3 to 4 feet of Tippet. At Amber you have to get down near the bottom and then retrieve upwards through the water column to find the water temp that the fish desire. This will sound CRAZY but your retrieve has to be at least 1 to 2 foot strokes at a quick pace. Remember that you have a long leader and tippet and the sinking line hits the bottom but your UNWEIGHTED fly is higher in the water column causing a bow in your line. The fish see the bug being pulled downward and then quickly upward as the bow in the line disappears and that spin movement that doesn’t happen with a WEIGHTED fly causes them to strike a color that the normally feed on. As summer approaches I alternate the other color which is a shinny purplish black color with purple flash and the same hackle and retrieve. I grew up a couple of miles from the Lake and have fished it thousands of times in my life and I believe the best area to fish is from the launch area to right across the lake being protected from the prevailing wind because of the jut of land that create's a wind barrier and a scum line of food for the fish. At Medical Lake I use the same wine leech and pick the flies with a little longer marabou tail section. Although I have caught fish using the Amber technique you will do better fishing it in a different way. If you launch from the launch area look across the Lake you will see a tall mound or hill with trees and brush near the water line. The large Browns hang in that area. I use a couple of feet more tippet like 6 to 8 feet on a 9 1/2 foot tapered leader which can make it harder to cast. Vary your position from shore from 10 to 20 yards and cast not into shore but along the shore. This only works on non high wind days. Make as good of cast as you can and then do the opposite that you would do at Amber. Don’t move except every minute just click your reel two to four clicks. The fly will sink so slowly in the water and the marabou tail movement is doing all the work for you. I don’t know why the big browns love it, they just do. They easily break 5 1/2 pound tippet when they strike so I would go with a little stronger tippet line for the Browns. The 3rd fly is a wet may fly nymph. Moose hair design seems to work the best. On days when they are starting to emerge you can catch and release a lot of fish using a method that I found by MISTAKE. I was fishing Amber which normally has maybe 20 plus people fishing on it day by day. That day around 60 plus fly fishing members came to fish the Lake . The fish were bitting but is was on the slow side so I put the Mayfly nymph on and started getting a few more bites. I casted wrong and fouled my line on the tip of my south fork pontoon. It was kinda of a mess and it took me a couple of minutes to fix the mess because I had a gentle wind pushing me down the lake over my line. When I fixed everything I did a quick retrieve since my line was straight down below the boat and I hooked a nice rainbow. I thought to myself thats kinda weird. So I did my normal cast and the instead of starting a retrieve I used my force fins to come over the line waited a minute and then did a fast retrieve and caught another fish. I repeated the same move time and time again with the same results catching fish EVERY TIME. I did this for hours and noticed fly fisherman catching very few fish up and down the lake. After a couple of hours of this I noticed that the whole fly club was at the launch watching me and every time I hooked a fish I would hear a roar and laughter from them. I thought after a while maybe I should just go in and just remember a great day of fishing and a new way of fishing that type of fly. So I paddled my way to shore and a gentlemen from the club asked me what I had been using. I showed him the moose hair style with parted forward facing wings and he said that many of the club members had used the fly and only caught a few fish. I told him that I found out by mistake that that design fly is more effective if it’s stripped quickly in a vertical position. The forward facing split moose hair wing movement when you strip it vertically seems irresistible to the fish. Isn’t that life we can all learn from our mistakes. I am sorry that this is so long. All types of flies can catch fish some seem to just be better than others at different lakes. If you need to stock up on some flies let me know if I can be of any help. Currently I have a couple of thousand flies made for several species of fish in WA , ID, MT, Yellowstone and British Columbia lakes and rivers. Thank’s , Dennis . show contact info

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posted: 2026-02-23 13:58

updated: 2026-04-03 15:53

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