Bunny Bugger Fly Tying Tutorial

Basic tutorial on how to tie the bunny bugger, an overall easy fly to tie and very effective for not only Massachusetts trout streams but bass and pickerel fishing as well.

Winthrop Bass

This large mouth bass was caught on a Lake Winthrop on a canoe in late august, it was caught just off of a steep drop off at the base of a large flat near the center of the lake, I was stripping a size 4 orange woolly bugger which had been successful the whole summer with pickerel, crappie and especially bass. The bass in this lake were being hooked on small lures and flies all throughout the summer and into the fall, when I tried switching to a larger size fly the fish just weren't as aggressive as they were with the smaller flies. This was both good and bad considering I got plenty of bites but nearly half of them were sunfish, I felt the hard hit that is unique to the sunfish in this lake and got my hopes up but when you pull out your 15th sunfish of the day,bass begin to seem like a rarity. Luckily enough I was able to get this big guy towards the end of the day.

Solid day on the Swift

This trout was caught at the Swift river probably around last April. Due to the really harsh winter Massachusetts got, trout stocking was delayed. When my friend and I arrived at the Swift we actually found very few trout, it seemed as though there was 10 suckers for every rainbow. The first place we stopped was almost right beneath the route nine bridge. Once we got down to the river we saw a solid pod of fish maybe around 20 or so. Most of them were suckers but there were a few holdover rainbows in the mix. At the time my friend was fishing dry flies and nymphs while I was just drifting an egg. At one point after not getting any bites I decided to cast near a fallen tree across the river, hoping there might be something in there...and there was, the rainbow pictured below. That trout put up a solid fight, twisting my tippet all around some sticks near the fallen tree. Luckily my friend was there and was able to net the fish before it snapped off. Later I switched to a brown wooly bugger and was able to catch a sucker in the same spot. My friend was able to land a sucker on an egg pattern down at the Y-pool. Towards the end of the day we decided to head down to the pipe where we both used Walt's worm patterns in size 16 both tied with dark brown dubbing and mine with a jig hook. I was able to land another rainbow trout in the shallow water right beneath the pipe. All in all it was a good day with some good fish.

Small Vermont Brook Trout

A brook trout caught in a small Vermont pond at the base of Mt. Equinox in Dorset. Caught stripping a small a zug bug nymph. We struggled to catch many other small rising brook trout, but we pulled this one out nicely.

First Post-Intro

Welcome to the Talkin Trout blog, on this blog we will be posting about the trout fishing, and possibly bass fishing, around Massachusetts and Vermont. We will also be posting links to the recordings of our radio show. Please enjoy!