The Essential Fly Buzzer Olive Fishing Fly

The Essential Fly Buzzer Olive Fishing Fly

Buzzer Olive

is designed to imitate buzzers or chironomids as they emerge through the water to hatch into midges. Midges hatch 365 days a year to flies like Buzzer Olive are important to match the hatch!

Fly Fishing Methods, Tips & Techniques

The natural buzzers / chironomids move very slowly when emerging, moving slowly up and down in the water column until conditions are right to hatch and it is important that we use the Buzzer Olive to imitate that movement. A team of flies often consists of 3 buzzers including one or more Buzzer Olive for trout on a droppered leader, with the heaviest (or largest) buzzer on the point. Never strip a team of buzzers including Buzzer Olive, allow the team of flies to drift naturally, suspend them with a buoyant fly like a stimulator or wulff or alternatively use a Thingamabobber. Always allow the team of flies including Buzzer Olive to drop below the feeding zone. Lift the rod tip slowly taking about 30 to 60 seconds to reach 60 degrees then lower the rod tip rapidly, take up the slack line and allow to drop again. The lift and drop slowly imitates the movement of the natural buzzer / chironomid we are trying to imitate with our Buzzer Olive.

When using buzzers the best fishing method is to keep it slow! What are the best Buzzer Olive fishing techniques? firstly the biggest mistake made by fly fishermen is because they are used to stripping lures they try the same techniques with Buzzer Olive. Buzzer fly fishing is a slow technique, use Buzzer Olive on a drift with a floating flyline and allow the line to drift with the current or wind or use a Bobber or other strike indicator to suspend your Buzzer Olive. Alternatively use a buoyant foam fly or stimulator flies  to suspend a team of buzzers including Buzzer Olive when buzzer fishing for trout 

1. Do NOT strip trout buzzers
2. Static or slow drift team including Buzzer Olive
3. Vary depth of the team, trout will feed at different levels at different times of the day
4. look for porpoising trout, if they are slowly taking buzzers just below the surface swap to CDC emerger buzzers or Sandys Assassins
5. try strike indicators or suspend a team of buzzers including Buzzer Olive with a Stimulator fly, Foam Arsed Blob or buoyant foam fly
6. Be prepared to use small buzzers, although size 8 is a great point fly when boat fishing a size 16 or size 18 better matches natural trout buzzer sizes

We believe buzzers including Buzzer Olive are certainly one of the important flies in any stillwater fly fishermans box when fishing for Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout.

If you are on a stillwater then check our hatch charts to see what is likely to be hatching. On reservoirs and lakes natural flies that will almost always be about and catch brown and rainbow trout are midges which grow and emerge. All stages of the life-cycle can be imitated by Bloodworms which change into buzzers which we have a successful ranges of Buzzer fly patterns including Blank Buster Buzzers and Flashback Buzzers and Epoxy Buzzers / Nymphs. Once in the surface film we can imitated these by Assassin Emergers, Blank Buster CDC Emergers and Emergers and Suspenders which to the trout look like the midge pupae ready to hatch.

Buzzer / Chironomid Hatches

The The Essential Fly Buzzer Olive Fishing Fly imitates a buzzer in its nymph stage as it comes to emerge into an adult midge. This is a light buzzer without a beadhead so flutters more gently through the water. A midge starts life in muddy water as a bloodworm or chironomide which is blood red in color. When ready to emerge this wiggles to the surface and this is when we use a The Essential Fly Buzzer Olive Fishing Fly to imitage this stage of the midge's life. Do not be afraid of using small The Essential Fly Buzzer Olive Fishing Fly as a buzzer can be just a few millimetres long.

The Essential Fly Buzzer Olive Fishing Fly is shown as a pupa on the Midge Life Cycle drawing. The The Essential Fly Buzzer Olive Fishing Fly is a very good imitation of a pupa. The pupa can be olive, red, brown, black or other colours according to the water and where the buzzer imitated by the The Essential Fly Buzzer Olive Fishing Fly is in the water column. Buzzers start blood red when at the bottom of the water and change as they rise to the surface to emerge.

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