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Fly Fishing Flies > Trout flies > Nymphs > Buzzers / Chironomidae

Information about Buzzers / Chironomidae flies

Buzzers / Chironomidae are midge pupa; they start life as a bloodworm living in the soft mud found in most still waters. Blood red worms get their colour from the oxygen and haemoglobin held within their bodies. When they are getting near to hatching they loose their blood red colour and take on a more sombre appearance. At this stage they then make their way from the lake bottom up through the water columns to the surface. They swim towards the surface in an wriggling action, stopping either to catch their breath or waiting for the right conditions to hatch. When they stop wriggling towards the surface they slowly sink back down before swimming upwards again. Eventually when they reach the surface, they hang from the surface film and hatch out in to adult buzzers or midge.

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  Black Holo Buzzer Black Holo Buzzer
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Olive Holo Buzzer Olive Holo Buzzer
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  Hare's Ear Buzzer Hare's Ear Buzzer
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  Olive Buzzer Nymph Olive Buzzer Nymph
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Silver and Green Bead Buzzer Silver and Green Bead Buzzer
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  Silver and Red Bead Buzzer Silver and Red Bead Buzzer
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GRHE Shipman's Buzzer GRHE Shipman's Buzzer
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  Reflections Buzzer Blue Reflections Buzzer Blue
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Reflections Buzzer Reflections Buzzer
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  Don's Beaded Chironomid Don's Beaded Chironomid
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Light Green Chironomid Light Green Chironomid
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  Green Flex Buzzer Green Flex Buzzer
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  Parcel Ribbon Buzzer Parcel Ribbon Buzzer
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Black Adult Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2385

Hook Sizes: 14, 12

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Serious food for trout! A must have pattern for the flybox. Teenage buzzer midges about to emerge rapidly from the water, when they will be leaving their pupal shucks floating on the surface. The emerging insect wriggles out of its skin the hungry trout see a bulky moving mass. When the insect is standing on the water surface near it's old skin waiting for its blood to pump up it's wings and the sun to dry them out the view from under the surface is still of a tangled mess of old skin and legs. You can now see why a fish will take an interesting looking mouthful of unkempt mess of hairy tied to a hook.

Black Holo Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2387

Hook Sizes: 14

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Serious food for trout! Teenage buzzer midges about to emerge rapidly from the water, when they will be leaving their pupal shucks floating on the surface. They fly in large swarms, often making a loud buzzing sound even though an individual buzzed is barely audible on its own.

Hare's Ear Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2389

Hook Sizes: 12, 14

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Serious food for trout! Teenage buzzer midges about to emerge rapidly from the water, when they will be leaving their pupal shucks floating on the surface. They fly in large swarms, often making a loud buzzing sound even though an individual buzzed is barely audible on its own.

Olive Adult Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2386

Hook Sizes: 14

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Serious food for trout! A must have pattern for the flybox. Teenage buzzer midges about to emerge rapidly from the water, when they will be leaving their pupal shucks floating on the surface. The emerging insect wriggles out of its skin the hungry trout see a bulky moving mass. When the insect is standing on the water surface near it's old skin waiting for its blood to pump up it's wings and the sun to dry them out the view from under the surface is still of a tangled mess of old skin and legs. You can now see why a fish will take an interesting looking mouthful of unkempt mess of hairy tied to a hook.

Olive Buzzer Nymph

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Flybox Code:3067

Hook Sizes: 10

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Olive Holo Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2388

Hook Sizes: 12, 14

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Serious food for trout! Teenage buzzer midges about to emerge rapidly from the water, when they will be leaving their pupal shucks floating on the surface. They fly in large swarms, often making a loud buzzing sound even though an individual buzzed is barely audible on its own.

Orange Quad Bead Worm

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Flybox Code:2912

Hook Sizes: 10

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The larvae of the Midge fly, better known as 'Bloodworm' is a hot favourite of the Trout. The beads will allow this fly to drop down through the water whilst its legs will be waving tantilizingly

Red Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:2544

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The larvae of the Midge fly, better known as 'Bloodworm' is a hot favourite of the Trout

Red Quad Bead Worm

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Flybox Code:2911

Hook Sizes: 10

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The larvae of the Midge fly, better known as 'Bloodworm' is a hot favourite of the Trout. The beads will allow this fly to drop down through the water whilst its legs will be waving tantilizingly

Silver and Black Bead Buzzer

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Flybox Code:3217

Hook Sizes: 10

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Silvery semitransparent buzzer to replicate the gaseous body just before hatching for fishing near to the surface film. Retrieve very slowly with occasional quicker movement to give a rising and falling action - John Smith 2007

Silver and Green Bead Buzzer

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Flybox Code:3197

Hook Sizes: 10

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Silvery semitransparent and green buzzer to replicate the gaseous body just before hatching for fishing near to the surface film. Retrieve very slowly with occasional quicker movement to give a rising and falling action - John Smith 2007

Silver and Red Bead Buzzer

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Flybox Code:3198

Hook Sizes: 10

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Silvery semitransparent and red buzzer to replicate the gaseous body just before hatching for fishing near to the surface film. Retrieve very slowly with occasional quicker movement to give a rising and falling action - John Smith 2007

Unweighted Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:2850

Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14

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All buzzers start off as bloodworms, a good staple diet of trout. Bloodworms are found in or near the muddy bottom , however they eventually emerger and swim up through the water layers. This pattern is for tempting the trout in the upper layers of water.

3D Glass Red Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2120

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The 3D Glass Red Buzzer is colourful, and as with buzzer fishing best on a long as you can handle leader allowing the wind to drift it, keeping control with a very very slow retrieve

Adult Black Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1216

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My favourite buzzer for small waters when fish are "topping and tailing". Grease the line to about 30cm from the fly and move it very slowly.

Bandit Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2048

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The Bandit Buzzer is a very popular on the point when fished as part of a team on Irish loughs also works well individually on floating line and a long leader

Beadhead Brassie

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Flybox Code:1010

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Beadhead Brassie was created to represent a pupa, with its gas bubble, trying to rise to the surface. A gentle figure of eight retrieve with slight jerks.

Beadie Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:3199

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All buzzers start off as bloodworms, a good staple diet of trout. Bloodworms are found in or near the muddy bottom , however they eventually emerger and swim up through the water layers. This pattern is for tempting the trout in the upper layers of water. Allow to sink very slowly as takes are very often taken on the drop. Retrieve slowly with twitching action sufficient to activate tail. John Smith 2007

Bell's Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:1594

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I don’t know who first tied this pattern, my farther was using it some 25 years ago and don’t think it was his design, when I used this fly as a child it was just a hook with some red wool wrapped around the hook shank leaving a tag at ether end, the materials have changed now but the idea is just the same.

Black & Blood Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1569

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Ther Black & Blood Buzzer may may look a bit gaudy at the vice or in the flybox, but when the thorax is wet it turns a beautiful blood red colour. It is important to pick out the fibres around the thorax to create a scruffy look.

Black and Claret Buzzer JC

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Flybox Code:2566

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Buzzer with plenty meal appeal of for the fish; and the Jungle Cock will certainly cause attraction

Black and Red Buzzer JC

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Flybox Code:2565

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Buzzer with plenty meal appeal of for the fish and the Jungle Cock will certainly cause attraction

Black and Red tag Buzzer CDC

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Flybox Code:781

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The CDC slows the descent of the buzzer, possibly imitating the losing struggle of a pupae in the surface film, watch for the takes in first few inches of the decent.

Black Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1258

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A good standard lake and small stillwater pattern, best used on as long a leader as the angler is comfortable casting with.

Black CDC Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2931

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Buzzers are a basic food of trout and the Black Larva's CDC body gives a softish feel on the mouth and is often much slower to reject

Black CDC Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2956

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Buzzers are a basic food of trout and the Black Larva's CDC body gives a softish feel on the mouth it is often much slow to reject.

Black Holo-flex Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1682

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I developed this pattern in 1998 as a true to life chirononid pupa pattern and is currently one of my favourites for stillwater. If you compare it to the natural, it will soon become obvious why it works. I usually fish it static or with a very slow 1" twitch on a very long fine tapered fluorocarbon leader. I have found that takes are usually very confident with a long slow pull of the line (unmissable??!!).

Black n' Blue

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Flybox Code:1990

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A black buzzer with a hint of blue holo flash

Blagdon Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1832

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The Blagdon Buzzer is reputedly to be the very first Buzzer / Chironomidae created to represent the midge pupa. Fish it on a long leader with floating line and it will work today as successfully as it did for Dr Bell in the 1920s and for countless anglers over the last 80 years

Brassie

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Flybox Code:1009

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Watch carefully when fishing the Brassie for the takes on the drop when fishing stillwaters, works equally well when fished upstream nymphing.

CH Hare

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Flybox Code:1975

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Chan's Chironomid Pheasant Tail

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Flybox Code:2200

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Chan's Chironomid Pheasant Tail fished on floating line and a long leader works well on stillwaters on both sides of the Atlantic

Crisp Packet Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1090

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Fish with a long leader greased to within 6 inches of the fly and cast to rising and bulging fish.Or fish it on a dropper with a big bushy dry sedge or alternatively on the point so the pupa will fish just below the surface with the dry fly acting as a floating bite indicator. Do not retrieve at anything but snails pace. Can also be fished at depth, a very useful fly.

Dark Green Buzzer

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Flybox Code:760

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A great fly when trout are feeding deep on buzzers.

Datsun

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Flybox Code:1109

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Silly fly when you look at it, but deadly when the fish are being difficult.

Don's Beaded Chironomid

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Flybox Code:714

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White Lake in the Shuswap Region of British Columbia is one of my favorite lakes for big rainbow trout! Even though it is a two hour drive from where I live, I fish this lake several times times a year! Part of the reason, other than the magnificently beautiful setting, the abundance of wildlife, and the clear water with a marl/weed covered bottom, is that the huge rainbow residents can be caught on tiny chironomids if presented in the correct manner! I use a floating line and about a 16 foot leader with a weighted, size 14 chironomid. I try to anchor in 30 to 35 feet of water and cast in to drop-offs where the water depth is around 18 feet. Often, lunker trout can be seen cruising near the bottom when their feeding mode is on! That is when the floating fly line/long leader technique comes into its own, providing that you have the right chironomid such as described below!

Easitied Multi-Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1213

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I introduced this fly to my flytying classes as an example of a very simple tying which, never-the-less, proved highly successful. - Freddie Rice

Elite Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:1681

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A very versatile fly, that is simple to tie. I fish it the either static or very slowly twitched in the 6" to 18" off the bottom of the water absolutely deadly on a sinking line early season. Grayling also love it and it is a regular part of standard winter fishing river team of flies.

Elite Lace Holo Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1589

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The idea of using oil filled lace is not new, the Elite Lace product from Roots Fly Tying Products is, this product is injected with oil which produces the effect when in water of air around the body of the fly as would be seen just before the Chiron amid emerges at the surface. To say this fly works well would not do it justice, used on lakes in Canada and the UK it has proved deadly time after time.

Elwyn's Orange Buzzer

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Flybox Code:890

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A 25 yard retrieve in less than ten minutes is a sprint for the buzzer, the best pace is a gentle stroll.

Flexi Floss Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:1086

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The Flexi Floss Bloodworm was created to represent the larva stage of the midge. They live buried in the mud but now and again they come out to replenish their oxygen supplies; which is when the trout will feed on the avidly.

Flexi Midge

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Flybox Code:1974

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Flexi-Floss Footballer Nymph

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Flybox Code:1099

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This modern version of Geoffrey Bucknall's'Footballer' uses rubber strands for the body instead of the usual more delicate stripped cock hackle stalks or horsehair. Not as bright as the original but definitely stronger. Cast to rising or bulging fish on the end of a long greased leader, except for the last 6 inches of the tippet. If not taken on the drop then give a single long steady pull.

Foam Shipmans Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1110

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Boat fishing with a good wave and a team of Shipmans can result in some descent sport as the fish follow the wind lanes.

Footballer

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Flybox Code:1100

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Geoffrey Bucknall was an innovative fly dress and created the Footballer. A hither to ignored stage between a bloodworm and emerger, the 'buzzer'. A style dressing that soon became a must in the stillwater fly fisherman's flybox.

G. R. P. Nymph

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Flybox Code:1220

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This is Freddie's GRP -- "General Representative Pattern", it has proved highly successful over many seasons.

Golden Claret Buzzer JC

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Flybox Code:2569

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Buzzer with plenty colour and movement to attract the fish and the Jungle Cock will certainly add the extra flash.

Green Flash Copper Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2094

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The Green Flash Copper Buzzer is simple yet has all the ingredience to be devastating on the day

Green Flex Buzzer

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Flybox Code:759

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Make sure you have this fly when the trout are on big green buzzers! Fish deep and slow. 25 yards in 10 minutes - slow down.

Grey Boy Buzzer JC

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Flybox Code:2568

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Buzzer with plenty meal appeal of for the fish and the Jungle Cock will certainly cause attraction as will the red hot spot.

GRHE Shipman's Buzzer

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Flybox Code:698

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A fusion of two great flies to produce a real killer during buzzer emergence. This fly works well just below the surface.

Haemo Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2052

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The Haemo Buzzer has proved itself to be a "not to be left at home" pattern, thoughout the season.

Hairy Black Woolly Bugger

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Flybox Code:1854

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"The Hairys". The basic secret of the Hairy Black Woolly Bugger, as with all Hairy flies and bug patterns is the pulsing action of the hair hackle. Hair is substituted for feathers found in the traditional patterns. This pattern as with all my Hairys have a natural action in the water and it is imperative that fishermen remember that artificial fliesat the end of their leader act like living organisms. Normal fishing methods should be used when fishing the "Hairys" - Gordon (2002)

Hare's Ear Buzzer Olive JC

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Flybox Code:2563

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A very attractive buzzer pattern with plenty of active triggerpoints which the fish find irresistible at times.

Hare's Ear Buzzer Orange JC

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Flybox Code:2564

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A very attractive buzzer pattern with plenty of active trigger points which the fish find irresistible at times.

Hatching Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1214

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There are multitudes of buzzers many of which can be seen at almost any time of year. This one scores for me when the water is like a millpond.

Helix Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:694

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All buzzers start off as bloodworms but few anglers, until very recently, have bothered to carry an imitation in their bags. This is an excellent choice in this context. Bloodworms are classically found at the bottom of lakes, and a good deal of weighting is required to effect this, on a slim dressing.

Hot Spot Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1991

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The Hot Spot Buzzer has an aim point that can trigger a strike

Hotspot Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2216

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Juicy Grub Black & Lime

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Flybox Code:1328

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Robust and simple, these patterns work as well in rivers as they do in reservoirs and lakes.

Juicy Grub Black & Pink

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Flybox Code:1329

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Robust and simple, these patterns work as well in rivers as they do in reservoirs and lakes.

Juicy Grub Black Fire

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Flybox Code:1327

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Robust and simple, these patterns work as well in rivers as they do in reservoirs and lakes.

Juicy Grub Lime & Lemon

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Flybox Code:1330

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Robust and simple, these patterns work as well in rivers as they do in reservoirs and lakes.

Juicy Grub Red & Lime

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Flybox Code:1331

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Robust and simple, these patterns work as well in rivers as they do in reservoirs and lakes.

Leggy Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:2545

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The Leggy Bloodworms' tantalizing movement stimulates trout into electrifying strikes - so be alert from the very moment when the fly enters the water!

Light Green Chironomid

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Flybox Code:728

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I seldom enter fishing derbies but the BC Tel High Lakes Derby held every Father's Day weekend in June is a must! It is organized by the winner of the previous year and is more of a social event than a serious fishing outing. However, to its credit, fly fishing is the favoured method of trout pursuit in the plateau lakes to the east of the Central Okanagan Valley. A rustic trophy that depicts the annual winners back to 1978 is the Stanley Cup of this derby and while many say they hope they do not win because of the organisational effort to put on the following year's derby, it is indeed a special honour to be a winner! The largest trout caught for the 3 day weekend is the objective, not the quantity of fish caught, so I find that after taking one or two larger trout, all the rest are released. I was using a small green chironomid when I landed a trout that won this event a third time for me! Most fly fishers in Western Canada favour dark chironomids but this fly is tied with a light green body, and can be extremely effective when the traditional black and brown chironomids are just not working!

Marabou Nymph

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This is a general pattern which, in various colours and sizes, provides a reasonable representation of a number of forms, and is economical in materials and simple in its tying. Freddie Rice "Tying Trout Flies, Lures, Nymphs & Buzzers" 1993

Morgan's Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:1206

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A deep-water pattern from Morgan's Buzzer series The Blood worm completes the cycle of the buzzer (chiromamid). Although a good basic pattern which performs well, I would refer you to my good friend Arthur Cove whose pattern incorporates red rubber balloon strips. This is very deadly. Basically on days when nothing is on the surface, a bloodworm fished on a long leader and allowed to sink to the bottom will often score.

Morgan's Green Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1201

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After many trout were spooned and the contents closely examined, the buzzers were found to have a distinctly segmented body with alternate translucent and solid bands. While a silver ribbed body undoubtedly caught trout, it was not perhaps the best imitation. At the vice, experiments of winding mother-of-pearl over a flat, green tinsel produced an electrifying effect. From one angle it appeared to be a greenish silver and from another it was pearlescent. To form the solid bands, five turns of black silk were wound and finished with a slipknot. Then add at least one coat of varnish, and the completed body is indeed impressive. The other material that reacts with mother-of-pearl in this way is fluorescent orange silk. To finish the head, white hen hackle fibres are used for breathers, bronze peacock herl for the head, and orange floss for the cheeks.

Morgan's Orange Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1205

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Mid of the water pattern from Morgan's Nimrod series. After many trout were spooned and the contents closely examined, the buzzers were found to have a distinctly segmented body with alternate translucent and solid bands. While a silver ribbed body undoubtedly caught trout, it was not perhaps the best imitation. At the vice, experiments of winding mother-of-pearl over a flat, green tinsel produced an electrifying effect. From one angle it appeared to be a greenish silver and from another it was pearlescent. To form the solid bands, five turns of black silk were wound and finished with a slipknot. Then add at least one coat of varnish, and the completed body is indeed impressive. The other material that reacts with mother-of-pearl in this way is fluorescent orange silk. To finish the head, white hen hackle fibres are used for breathers, bronze peacock herl for the head, and orange floss for the cheeks.

Nimrod Buzzer

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Mid water pattern from Morgan's Nimrod series is a positive attempt to imitate the light tan buzzer which proliferates on still water throughout the country. A carefully bleached pheasant tail is essential in achieving the right body colour. The wing cases are claret pheasant tail and the thorax is deliberately given a buggy effect with the use of fox squirrel. (Experience has proved that the buggy type effect has in most cases outscored other dubbings). To give a small suggestion of flash, thin, flat green tinsel is secured under the copper rib along the spine. Orange floss cheeks give the colour impression associated with bloodstream in the wing buds but essentially create a trigger point for trout. The use of the bleached pheasant tail has enabled the surface patterns to be consistent fish catchers.

Olive Phantom

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Flybox Code:1568

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Many olive coloured pupae tend to be almost transparent in the water. To achieve this effect the underbody thread has been overwrpped with a pearl tinsel to give the fly a semi- transparent appearance

Orange and Claret Buzzer JC

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Flybox Code:2567

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Orange Duck Fly

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Flybox Code:2162

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The Orange Duck Fly is a winning combination of the Irish Duck fly and English stillwater buzzer. Fish on the middle or top dropper, and be prepared for firm takes on the drop.

Parcel Ribbon Buzzer

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Flybox Code:776

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Best fished on top or middle dropper with NO retrieve and allowed to "swing"

Rainbow Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1567

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The rainbow thread produces a multi-coloured body and as the thread is always changing colour when you wrap it atound the hook you will never get two identical patterns

Realistic Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1292

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This fly can be fished throughout the year at all depths. I've found this fly shows it's true potential around mid summer. Fish it static on a floating line, allow the wind to present naturally.

Red CDC Buzzer

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Flybox Code:2955

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Buzzers are a basic food of trout and the Red Larva's CDC body gives a softish feel on the mouth and is often much slower to reject

Red Hot

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Flybox Code:1986

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Super simple and super effective. Used in the early spring in tailwater fisheries, such as the Gunnison Gorge or the taylor River. Also in the San Juan and Blue Rivers. Imitates the various worms or Annelids present in most waters. Can also be tied in shades of orange and browns - Brad

Red Larva (MP37 )

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Flybox Code:2277

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Buzzers are a basic food of trout and the Red Larva's CDC body gives a softish feel on the mouth and is often much slower to reject

Reflections Buzzer

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Flybox Code:702

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A very attractive buzzer pattern which the fish find irresistible at times. Use the longest leader practicable and a very, very slow retrieve.

Reflections Buzzer Blue

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A very attractive buzzer pattern which the fish find irresistible at times. Use the longest leader practable and a very very slow retrieve.

Roots Elite Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1680

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This is a relatively new pattern but its initial success has been so phenomenal I just had to put it in. The oil filled roots elite lace is the ideal material for making a nicely tapered segmented translucent abdomen. When buzzer fishing my standard point fly is now one of these in a hot or fluorescent colour. Not only does it act as attractor to the more imitatively coloured buzzers but it also takes a lot of fish.

Serendipity Green

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Flybox Code:1007

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Representive or possible imitatin of midge pupa, what every the trout sees it as it works.

Serendipity Red

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Flybox Code:1006

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Representive or possible imitatin of midge pupa, what every the trout sees it as it works.

Shipman's Black Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1092

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Dave Shipman created this simple pattern as a successful representative of an emerger that has spawned many variant. It is fished on the surface and sometimes when the eye half is ginked, half in half out, even , in or just below the the surface film.

Shipman's Fiery Brown Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1093

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Dave Shipman created this simple pattern as a successful representative of an emerger that has spawned many variant. It is fished on the surface and sometimes when the eye half is ginked, half in half out, even , in or just below the the surface film.

Shorty Buzzer

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The Shorty Buzzer - for the point of a team

Sid's Standard Black Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1614

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Sid's Standard Black Buzzer is tied using a strong curved Buzzer hook with a dubbed body, tail and breathers, for fishing right in the surface film.The dubbed body (seal fur or seal fur subs) gets trapped in the water surface, thus keeping the buzzers in the surface film.To make absolutely sure that they float high, you can always treat them with a floating (Gink is excellent).

Sid's Standard Brown Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1617

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Sid's Standard Brown Buzzer is tied using a strong curved Buzzer hook with a dubbed body, tail and breathers, for fishing right in the surface film.The dubbed body (seal fur or seal fur subs) gets trapped in the water surface, thus keeping the buzzers in the surface film.To make absolutely sure that they float high, you can always treat them with a floating (Gink is excellent).

Sid's Standard Claret Buzzer

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Sid's Standard Claret Buzzer is tied using a strong curved Buzzer hook with a dubbed body, tail and breathers, for fishing right in the surface film.The dubbed body (seal fur or seal fur subs) gets trapped in the water surface, thus keeping the buzzers in the surface film.To make absolutely sure that they float high, you can always treat them with a floating (Gink is excellent).

Sid's Standard Fire Orange Buzzer

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Sid's Standard Fire Orange Buzzer is tied using a strong curved Buzzer hook with a dubbed body, tail and breathers, for fishing right in the surface film.The dubbed body (seal fur or seal fur subs) gets trapped in the water surface, thus keeping the buzzers in the surface film.To make absolutely sure that they float high, you can always treat them with a floating (Gink is excellent).

Sid's Standard Olive Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1618

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Sid's Standard Olive Buzzer is tied using a strong curved Buzzer hook with a dubbed body, tail and breathers, for fishing right in the surface film.The dubbed body (seal fur or seal fur subs) gets trapped in the water surface, thus keeping the buzzers in the surface film.To make absolutely sure that they float high, you can always treat them with a floating (Gink is excellent).

Spectral Bloodworm

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FM's Spectral Bloodworm is a vivid imitation of the larva that live near the bottom of stillwater, a tasty morsel the trout feed on throughout the season

Supreme Buzzer Black

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Surface Film Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1233

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When using the 'Surface Film Buzzer' with its plastazote bubble and picked out thorax, this fly, when lightly treated with floatant, sits in the surface film and can be let to drift. Freddie Rice "Tying Trout Flies, Lures, Nymphs & Buzzers" 1993

Suspender Buzzer

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Flybox Code:1789

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Unsinkable midge pupa that hangs tantilisingly in the surface film, just as the natural does prior to hatching

Tungtsen Dubbed Bloodworm

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Flybox Code:1661

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A Tungtsen Dubbed Bloodworm is used by stalker on small waters where the big fish can been seen feeding on or near the bottom.

Ultimate Chironamid

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Flybox Code:1591

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I was show this fly by it’s originator Mr Herman Fisher from Kamloops, Canada, it was designed for use on the lakes that surround the Kamloops area where he lives, it works best fished just above the bed of the lake, I have spent many a day with Herman and watched him out fish everybody on the lake, including myself when he was using nothing else but his chironamid pattern. I have tried it in the UK and had amazing results; this is the fly I used for the basis of many of my new buzzer patterns.

Vekemans Orange Buzzer

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Waggoners Grey Buzzer

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Many years ago I used to frequent some National Trust hammer ponds stocked with rainbows at Waggoners Wells, Grayshott on the Surrey & Hampshire borders, where a terrific mayfly hatch occurred near to 7th May each year. When the mayfly hatch ceased the grey buzzers would appear and I produced this pattern for use there. Since then it has done well at Albury in Surrey, Pitford Water in Northamptonshire and at Humshaugh in Northumberland, although only at Pitsford does seem to be any record of grey buzzers being present. Freddie Rice "Tying Trout Flies, Lures, Nymphs & Buzzers" 1993 Freddie is an 'Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructor', and has taught fly tying for nearly 50 years.

WD 40

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One of the various midge imitations used throughout the west. Brad

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