Woolly Bear Bomber

Originator: Art Lingren, Fly: Art Lingren, Photograph: Hans Weilenmann
Hook: Size 12 to 4, Tiemco 7989, Partridge Wilson or low-water salmon
Thread: Black 6/0
Tail: Black squirrel
Body hackle: Brown furnace, palmered
Body: Spun and clipped black deer hair
Wing: None, but deer hair set and trimmed so that it protrudes upwards at hook eye

Notes:

Intended Use: Waked-fly for summer-run steelhead

This is an offshoot of the famous Canadian Atlantic salmon Bomber developed by Reverend Elmer Smith back in the 1960s. This fly has been used successfully for summer steelhead on the Dean, Thompson, Bulkley, Kispiox, Copper and Deschutes (Oregon) with fairly good incidental catches of rainbows and bull trout. It is a good producer. One day last summer in the first five minutes of fishing Newfoundland’s Codroy River this fly took one of the few Atlantic salmon taken on that river that morning.

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