Streamers & Buggers

The Jindy Bugger is a wooly bugger with a brass bead head in an olive color. This variant of the humble wooly bugger is tied in green to mimic mudeyes, damsels,  and even yabbies. If you're fishing Jindabyne and surrounds it pays to have some of these flies stashed in your box.

The Bead Head Woolly Bugger Black is a brass bead weighted wooly bugger that will be down to the fish. A very versatile pattern that should be in the favourite in every flyfishers fly box. 

The Yabby fly is a yabby imitation. A fantastic lake fly for yabby feeding trout. Just about every body of freshwater has yabbies or crayfish, so if your fishing lakes and dams yabby patterns should be carried. 

The Jindy Special is a locally designed streamer pattern that mimics the common smelt found in the waters of the Snowy Mountains. 

Craig's Nighttime is great fly for after dark. A baby pattern that mimics subsurface feed for big trout. Slowly retrieved back this fly will get some very big fish.

The Bead Head Woolly Bugger in Olive & Black is another great mudeye imitation that can be fished in all water. The brass bead head will get this fly down deep. 

The Wooly Bugger is probably the world most fished fly. This versatile pattern is essential for every fly fishers flybox.  Baitfish, mudeyes, damselflies, big nymphs, you could even fish one dry as a caterpillar! This is the only fly you need!

The Woolly Bugger is one of the most widely used flies in the world. Tied as a baitfish/mudeye imitation this fly does it all. If you don't have wooly buggers in your box you need to.

The Mrs Simpson is a great mudeye imitation. This killer pattern is great fish in the weeds for trout looking for mudeyes and damselflies. 

The Hamills Killer in the dark varaint is a very versatile killer pattern. Can be fished in rivers and lakes. A great mudeye or damselfly imitation. 

The Cordulid is a mudeye pattern. This killer style of fly is a proven fish catcher. A great lighter colored mudeye imitation. 

The Fuzzy Wuzzy is another Kiwi designed fly. Initially tied to represent freshwater shrimp, this pattern is very popular throughout the world. 

Hamills Killer is another great mudeye imitation. When fished in the weeds this fly is deadly. One of our classic favourites. 

The Wooly Bugger is one of the most popular 'wet fly pattern in the world. Baitfish, mudeyes, big nymphs. You can fish the fly in all water.

Dore's Mr Glister from Manic Tackle is a heavily weighed "Bunny Style" fly. Great for swinging on the river or fished off the bottom of the lake.

The Scotch Poacher is another pattern originally from New Zealand.  Initially tied for a small crayfish or yabby imitation.  This fly fished very well on dark night. A great mudeye pattern as well.

Manic Tackles Yoshi Bugger is another variant of the good old Wooly Bugger. Tied with a bright heavy bead and orange grizzly hackle. 

Bushy's Horror designed by Kaj Busch. Another great smelt pattern for our local waters. Great as a river or lake fly when a baitfish imitation is needed. 

The Matuka is a New Zealand steamer pattern that is the all over the world. Early and late season river fly. Great searching pattern for the lake.

The Mrs Simpson is a killer pattern that is a good fly fo Mudeye hatches. They are also a great little baitfish imitation. A nice fly for fixing the weed beds. 

Manic Tackles Burgin Bugger is just like a wooly bugger but better. This leggy creation has lots if natural movement.this bugger has a heavy head and will fish deep.

The Green Mountain Shrimp is a great fly for shrimp eating fish. When fished in the weedbeds and around the edges of the lake at night this fly will really shine. A great shrimp pattern for our local lakes. 

Chou's Fortune Cookie from Manic Tackle is a "Spey" style fly that was designed swinging on the river. The Olive variant is a great Brown Trout imitation.