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.
Beadie Bloodworm
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Flybox Code:3199
Hook Sizes: 12
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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
Black Adult Buzzer
Availablity:
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: 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.
Golden Claret Buzzer JC
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Flybox Code:2569
Hook Sizes: 12
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Buzzer with plenty colour and movement to attract the fish and the Jungle Cock will certainly add the extra flash.
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.
Hare's Ear Buzzer Olive JC
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Flybox Code:2563
Hook Sizes: 12
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A very attractive buzzer pattern with plenty of active triggerpoints which the fish find irresistible at times.
Leggy Bloodworm
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2545
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
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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!
Olive Adult Buzzer
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2386
Hook Sizes: 12, 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 Holo Buzzer
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Flybox Code:2388
Hook Sizes: 12
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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
Availablity:
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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2544
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
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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
Availablity:
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
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.
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.
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.