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As I wrote in my article on Globalflyfisher.com – chubies love bugs. Bug makes noisy splat that draws their attention to what is going on on the surface. Those days I was fishing big bugs, and actually they produced some real nice-sized fish, but now I am fishing with light rod (8′ 2wt.), so trowing chunky flies is kind of trouble.. So I had to decrease size and do some research with color combinations. Here is quote from my article on GFF:

The bug fever started when I got a foam beetle from my friend Darius Vaskevicius.
Within short, the fly caught me my biggest chub ever, which was close to 60 cm/24″.
So this bug was so attractive, that I started experimenting with shape, colors and other woodoo things. One of the experiments resulted in a beetle with creamy body and mint colored foam. It was tied just for fun and not for fishing. However, one day, when the fish were not biting, I tied it on and within a few hours I caught many and nice chubs. It does not look natural, but it certainly works very well. Now I am aware that it works best under the pre-spawning period. The rest of the season, the fish prefer brown and black flies looking more naturally.

Rest of article along with some photos you can find on Globalflyfisher – HERE

Tying instructions

• Cut a foam strip. You’ll need any foam, any color – it will be used to form the body. Tie it as shown;
• Cut a LOCO foam strip and tie in. Can be used regular foam in any color you prefer;
• Put some dubbing in loop for the “hot spot” – chartreuse, orange, red will do fine. Wrap it;
• Make another dubbing loop and put there darker dubbing for the body (here I use Peacock dubbing from Siman);
• Wrap 2/3 of body, bend Loco foam and tie it with your thread. Make one turn with dubbing (optional);
• Tie in the legs, bend the rest of foam and form the head…
• You know the rest – whip finish, varnish, blah blah blah

There can be hundreds of color combinations, just try to find what is best for your favorite waters. Good luck!

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