Olive Epoxy Buzzer
Olive Epoxy Buzzer
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 Olive Epoxy Buzzer 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 Olive Epoxy Buzzer to imitate that movement. A team of flies often consists of 3 buzzers including one or more Olive Epoxy Buzzer for trout on a droppered leader, with the heaviest (or largest) buzzer on the point. Never strip a team of buzzers including Olive Epoxy Buzzer, 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 Olive Epoxy Buzzer 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 Olive Epoxy Buzzer.
When using buzzers the best fishing method is to keep it slow! What are the best Olive Epoxy Buzzer fishing techniques? firstly the biggest mistake made by fly fishermen is because they are used to stripping lures they try the same techniques with Olive Epoxy Buzzer. Buzzer fly fishing is a slow technique, use Olive Epoxy Buzzer 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 Olive Epoxy Buzzer. Alternatively use a buoyant foam fly or stimulator flies to suspend a team of buzzers including Olive Epoxy Buzzer when buzzer fishing for trout
- Do NOT strip trout buzzers
- Static or slow drift team including Olive Epoxy Buzzer
- Vary depth of the team, trout will feed at different levels at different times of the day
- look for porpoising trout, if they are slowly taking buzzers just below the surface swap to CDC emerger buzzers or Sandys Assassins
- try strike indicators or suspend a team of buzzers including Olive Epoxy Buzzer with a Stimulator fly, Foam Arsed Blob or buoyant foam fly
- 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 Olive Epoxy Buzzer 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
| Month | Buzzer Availability |
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| Jan | Some |
| Feb | Some |
| Mar | Plenty |
| Apr | Plenty |
| May | Lots |
| June | Lots |
| July | Lots |
| Aug | Lots |
| Sept | Plenty |
| Oct | Plenty |
| Nov | Plenty |
| Dec | Some |
The Olive Epoxy Buzzer 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 Olive Epoxy Buzzer to imitage this stage of the midge's life. Do not be afraid of using small Olive Epoxy Buzzer as a buzzer can be just a few millimetres long.
Olive Epoxy Buzzer is shown as a pupa on the Midge Life Cycle drawing. The Olive Epoxy Buzzer 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 Olive Epoxy Buzzer 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.
Olive Epoxy Buzzer Fishing Techniques  The Olive Epoxy Buzzer will sink aslowly unless used with beadhead /goldhead or other heavier flies in a team. The Olive Epoxy Buzzer can be fished in a variety of ways and the Olive Epoxy Buzzer is a super fly when trout are feeding on buzzers which the Olive Epoxy Buzzer imitates. Buzzers emerge 365 days per year so using the Olive Epoxy Buzzer works all year imitating natural buzzers matching the hatch!.
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| | |  Olive Epoxy Buzzer Thingamabobber Drifting
The Olive Epoxy Buzzer can be used as part of a team of 3 or just two fishing flies and suspended then drifted under a bung or really well under a Thingamabobber. These can be Olive Epoxy Buzzer and other buzzers or Olive Epoxy Buzzer invarying sizes and colours. Using a team of fishing flies with Olive Epoxy Buzzer works well on both reservoirs and on rivers. On rivers using a Thingamabobber works well acting as an excellent bite indicator on turbulent or fast waters. Using the Olive Epoxy Buzzer in this way works well as a Thingamabobber moves with both the current and wind at a more natural speed to the water conditions.
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| | Olive Epoxy Buzzer Fished Static The Olive Epoxy Buzzer can be fished static in 3 different ways, Olive Epoxy Buzzer team drifting, Bung Olive Epoxy Buzzer drifting and Olive Epoxy Buzzer dry fly drifting. |
| | |  Drifting Olive Epoxy Buzzer As Part of a Team Of Fishing Flies
The Olive Epoxy Buzzer can be used as part of a team of 2 of three fishing flies. Try Olive Epoxy Buzzer and other buzzers or alternatively use Olive Epoxy Buzzer in different sizes or colours for example use a size 12, 14 and 16 with the heaviest Olive Epoxy Buzzer as the point fly. The droppered leader can be used with a floating line and the Olive Epoxy Buzzer and other flies can be drifted with the wind and current moving the fly line and hence moving the Olive Epoxy Buzzer gently making in behave like the natural pupa the Olive Epoxy Buzzer imitates.
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| | |  Olive Epoxy Buzzer Dry Fly Drifting (New Zealand Style)
In New Zealand they developed a fishing style with a very heavy, larger fly and a Olive Epoxy Buzzer which is tied to a tippet attached to the bend or the eye of the large dry fly. This is deadly when used with a highly buoyant fly like Goddard Caddis, alternatively a heavy hackled klinkhammer or suspend the Olive Epoxy Buzzer using a foam fly. The Olive Epoxy Buzzer can be used as part of a team of fishing flies to hunt out those Brown Trout. On rivers using a Olive Epoxy Buzzer under a New Zealand rig is superb as both the Olive Epoxy Buzzer and the dry fly act as trout flies to attract trout and simultaneously present flies at surface and underwater catching trout at all stages of feeding. Using a Klinkhammer you are also presenting an emerging insect making the maximum of all opportunities.
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