It's simple, easy to tie, kinda rough looking, and will catch fish when nothing else will. The Woolly Bugger is what I call an insurance fly. Catching a fish is never 100% guaranteed, no matter what ...

The wooly bugger is arguably the best-known fly pattern in the world, often the first fly a beginning fly fisherman ties and fishes. It is easy to tie, easy to fish and remarkably effective for a ...

Move over woolly buggers, a new fly has become my new ‘go-to’ pattern. Not that I have any complaints about my tried and true woolly buggers. The woolly bugger has earned its place as my number one ...

I just received membership information from Trout Unlimited, one of the really good sportsmen/conservation groups whose work of conserving cold, clean water contributes directly to better fishing.

SPRING BAY — At the Woolly Bugger, chef Joshua Lanning is preparing to offer a menu heavy with Midwestern favorites, yet sparkling with epicurean and comic touches. The restaurant, poised to open to ...

Time was, mid-February saw the avid fly fisherman gnawing the bars of winter, waiting for April the way a caged lion waits for dinner. If he had nimble fingers and a good sense of color he might ...

SPRING BAY — Because of a "labor shortage," the new Woolly Bugger restaurant announced it temporarily will serve only overnight guests of the Sankoty Lakes Resort and Retreat. The resort's lone eatery ...

Smatterings of The Compleat Angler, The Bartender's Guide and Dear Abby dot this homespun first collection of offbeat fishing tales by an inveterate Montana fly fisherman who casts his obsessive ...