I know some folk pretty much exclusively stick to fishing buzzers. I've had a bash a couple of times and must admit it's pretty exciting when fish hit them but when the fish go off I tend to switch tactics which is why I'm asking this question.

I fished a local fishery a few years back and was using okey dokey's, the troot's couldn't get enough of them that day and I had quite a fun time. However, when I went back the next week they wouldn't even look at them regardless of which depth I was fishing at so I switched tactics.

So, should I have switched colour/type of buzzer and would this have brought the fish on or are there just days when the troot's won't even look at them.

Does anyone know how the okey dokey came about ? How did someone hit on using a white and lime green, yellow, pink or red buzzer ?

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Okey Dokeys are really lures and you should have changed to a more natural colour. Next time try three slim black buzzers of different sizes, then switch to three grey and finally try green or red. You will find that the fish will tend to take one colour, one size and at one depth. Once you find the formula - Bob's your uncle!

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more like maggot imitations. Agree about ringing the changes until you find what does work. Some people like fishing buzzers a lot because they can normally be relied on as fish catchers, although you still have to find the right depth and size. Colour sometimes as well, although black generally works for me most of the time. Failing that rip a blob or lure through!

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Buzzers all the way for me on the bank at draycote all depends on time of year regarding size and colour.
If they go off a switch to daiwl bachs green or red holo will do the trick.
I tend to fish em 20ft leader 4 flies staticHappy days.

Cheers Craig

You put a pink one in, take the green one out
Fish it under a bung, or you shake it all about
You have a sasuage butty and you turn around
That's what it's all about.....................Woooooaaah, fish the Okey Dokey.

Calling an 'Okey Dokey' a buzzer is a bit like calling a Yellow Dancer a wet fly.

Only one reason fish take them... much the same reason you smack someone in the mouth if they call you a c**t.

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An Okey D. is imo is a maggot / grub rep. I really don't see it as a lure varient in it's basic tying, should a marabou tail and bead head be thown in millennium style then i suppose you could argue a hydrid lure varient.

Should i see a return not producing as previously........ then personally i wouldn't bother with size changing the OD....... a skinny black buzzer would be my next choice and i wouldn't waste to much time with that either, as for other buzzer colours, if the fish are aving buzzer they'l hit a skinny black. Half a dozen chucks then on with the App's.

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article on this in the march 2010 issue of total flyfisher page 44 hope this helps

Do you know i have tried buzzer fishing quite a few times but have caught absolutely nothing,so i have given up on them,probably not doing it right.

It seems counter-intutitve that the most arm-wrenching takes can be provoked by something tiny, and barely moving.

I like to thing that the fish are fighting each other for the tasty morcels, much as seagulls on a crust. You get their interest and one will make a run for it.

Somehow it's seen as 'manly' to be casting and pulling all day. Can't imagine why.

This is so true, the only time that I have experienced smash takes that just broke me comprehensively has been when using buzzers.

Buzzers need to be fished very slow or better still, just drifting round on the breeze.

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Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary