My music is a hobby, it is not for income- only pure fun putting them together and jamming. Otherwise, let me know and I will take it down. Legend has it that woolly caterpillar’s ( Pyrrharctia isabella) coloration will predict the weather for the upcoming winter. I hope the owners of the Dylan song allow me to share this. I adopted Wooly Worm for my surf forecasts in Hawaii to gauge the long range surf predictions. In folklore, the spacing of the black and brown stripes was a seasonal forecast for the upcoming winter. Variations include Woolly Worms weighted with lead underbodies or brass or tungsten beads.I grew up on a farm in Kentucky and my Dad would point out the wooly worms. Woolly Worm flies are typically tied on number 4 to 10 3X long hooks. The popular colors are yellow, olives, browns, blacks. The underbody may be weighted with lead wire. The body is a chenille or fur body with a hackle palmered from the tail to the head of the fly. The original Woolly Worm fly was constructed without a tail, but the contemporary pattern has a yarn tail or hackle fiber tail.

The Woolly Worm, depending the specific material used and how it is fished can be assumed to resemble large nymphs, more specifically stoneflies, dragonflies, damselflies, riffle beetle larvae or hellgrammites. Its real popularity however came when Don Martinez, a West Yellowstone, Montana fly tier commercialized the pattern in the 1950s. Not only is it very easy to tie, but it's also highly effective for bass. The original Woolly Worm pattern is said to have originated in the Ozarks as a bass fly. The Wooly Worm is an easy project for anyone wishing to learn how to palmer hackle. Today, Woolly Worms are tied in a variety of styles and colors to imitate a large aquatic nymphs such as stoneflies, dragonflies, damselflies or hellgrammites.

Woolly Worms are typically fished in streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes for trout, bass, and panfish. Charles Brooks in Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout recommends the Woolly Worm as a general purpose nymph pattern in most western trout waters in any fly box. It is a popular pattern for freshwater game fish and was a very popular fly in the 1950s–1970s in the west. The Woolly Worm is an artificial fly commonly categorized as a wet fly or nymph and is fished under the water surface. Tied with various body, tail and hackle colors, weighted and unweighted Unknown, popularized by Don Martinez (1950s) Large aquatic nymphs of stoneflies, dragonflies, damselflies or hellgrammites Yellow and Grizzly Woolly Worm tied in its classic form

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