Anyone out there ever try bright colored woolly buggers?? I hit upon this combination on a trip last fall to a remote BC lake. Fished this lake for three days, starting with traditional flies and working my way thru buggers to chartreuse buggers and also very large black buggers.

The chartreuse color seemed to attract them the best as I caught approximately 40 fish one day on mostly that pattern.. and some with the big black woolly buggers. By "big" I mean #4 4xl hooks. In that 40 fish I also counted "short line releases" as "caught fish".

Another thing I noticed on that trip was some trout would just nip...nip..nip at the fly and not hit the hook. I tried something I heard about 15 years ago.. about throwing the fish some slack and they'd really smack that bugger.

The theory was that the fish were nipping at the leech to make it defensive and ball up. When it would ball up then the trout would swallow it.

It seemed to work as when the nippers hit and I threw about a foot of slack..when I'd take up the slack, a fish was on the hook.

Just curious about picking the brains of other fly fishermen....