Rick's Montana Wonder Bug
Words By: North 40 Outfitters
Posted: September 30, 2015

In trying to find the origination of the Montana Wonder Bug, the internet yielded patterns for other wonder bugs. However, I found that a number of the old school crowd fished the fly with their Dads in the late 1940s... and their Dads probably fished it in the 20s and 30s with the rubber tail coming from rubber bands or appropriated from the girdle of a female they knew.

The fly was fished wet or in the film mostly in the winter and early when the "snow flies" (midges) were hatching.

Materials:

  • Hook: 12 -16
  • Tail: small round rubber legs
  • Body: black or brown dubbing
  • Hackle: grizzly rooster neck to size

 

-- OLD MO ANGLER