Best Black Buzzer ?

[jjr]

I know this is an old chestnut but I'm still a relative newbie.....I've tried to tie the excellent Spnflex Mk 2 buzzer ( size 14) in black but it is as dull as dishwater and gives me no confidence .........can anyone recommend a really reliable black buzzer tying as I come to the end of my pre-season tying ? I hope to try the Foldback Buzzer soon but dont have any black antron yet. A black brassie looks possible .......but can anyone come up with a real "Winner" ?

Cheers lads

[Charlie]

I use a variety of simple black spanflex buzzers. They are just black flexifloss/spanflex with either a wire rib, a red flexifloss rib or a UV rib. I use holographic red tinsel for the wing buds and I pretty much always use a 10.

Whatever people say about "they are only taking green, or you can only catch on such and such pattern", I catch so many fish on this very simple fly, often when others aren't catching, that I don't worry about patterns for buzzers. I usually fish this pattern under a bung.

If I want to retrieve the flies, I tend to use a DB or a Cruncher as I feel these "do" more, although I used to catch lots on the black flexifloss moving it, before I made that leap.

Charlie

[Dog]

jjr - I am no flytier of any real capability, but can recommend that you try doing a Blakstone buzzer. Pretty straight forward and does the job. Very succesful and not too traumatic to tie.

[jjr]

Dog ....Blakestones ....is it Black thread, silver wire, pearl lurex up the spine, Peacock herl head ? Anything missing ? Does it need orange thorax / biots or whatever ?

[Keniom]

I like simple (easy to tie) patterns, so for a black buzzer I run black thread from the eye and round the bend where I catch in some orange glo-brite floss and put on about three turns as a tag. Tie in some pearl Krystal Flash then wind the black thread back to the eye, rib with the Krystal Flash and build up a thorax with the thread. I put on one coat of brushing super glue and when this has dried a couple of coats of Sally Hansen.

[deanz2000]

Hi JJR,
I asked the very same question a while ago, and "Daver" very kindly did me a step by step. I think he has it on his website as well, but i will put a link to the original thread and you can have a look at the step by step of Dave`s Black buzzer, im sure he wont mind me posting this
flyforums.proboards53.com/index.cgi?board=flytying&action=display&thread=1134072178

Deano

[troutbum]

This is one of my favourites.



Troutbum

[deanz2000]

Oh i had forgotten Dave has used olive spanflex, but you would just use black!

[Dog]

jjr - apologies for the delay in replying. Yeah, that's the one. I just use really bright orange floss as wing buds either side of the peacock hearl thorax. It's served me well enough like.

I am sure that there are other faves out there too, but this is my first port of call when trying the buzzers. Good luck.

[pint]

My favourite for the winter / early season months is a size 10 or 12 Black Ice buzzer with a gold hotspot. Gets them down deep and fast.

For later months , I go for a Blakestone Buzzer too in Anything up to size 16 or Tiny Miracle Nymph in Size 16 or 18.

[wigger01]

A little tip when tying buzzers that i have found works very well. Run "black" thread along shank and into bend and tye in a piece of rolled cling film, take thread back up to eye and tightly turn cling film back towards eye, tye off cling film and whip a head, tye off and coat with H A Nails, finish by painting wing buds with Holts VW orange paint and away you go. I have found this buzzer deadly on my local waters and very simple to tye. The cling film gives a nice slim segmented body to the fly.

[jjr]

Pint, whats a tiny miracle nymph ? Any materials guide or a pic ?

[Dougie]

My new favourite black buzzer!





Dougie

[Countryboy]

For me the best are Jim Doyle's(Magicone) skinny buzzers.



C.B

[flytire]

For the tyers using spanflex or flexifloss: Do you overcoat the fly with crazy glue, sally hansens hard as nails (a nail polish in the USA) or something else?