Reading the threads, the OD is often dismissed as a maggot imitation (therefore bait fishing to all intents).
I would wonder how often your average trout actually sees a maggot? If they don't see them, they can't be mistaking them for maggots.
Doesn't that make an OD just another, different coloured buzzer?

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Look at it this way Bill,the fish are never going to see a natural buzzer in Oki-Doki colours and no-one really knows what they take them for or why.There could be several reasons,its down to you if you want to believe you are imitating something natural with it.I don't.

Sometimes all folk need to know is that it works....

Bill,

The okey Dokey is supposidly an immitation of the Docken Grub and was banned from many waters when first popularised some ten or so years back.
I was blissfully unaware that this fly was still popular as i cannot recall hearing mention of it for many years now.

Tried them with no success whatsoever,gave up on them ages ago

Neil

I find the Okey Dokey handy as an occasional change fly on Southern smallwater fisheries, and not really much more. So I was surprised at the strong opinions expressed about it on the other string. After all, Frank Sawyer's killer bug also sets out to be a maggot imitation, and like all of that great angler's flies it is revered, not dissed

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The OD is classed as a buzzer and is tied in dozens of different colour variations. It can be skinny,fat, gold or bead headed or no head at all. It's a valuable part of a fly fisher's armoury.
It was first tied in Scotland and banned on many fisheries.It's fished under a bung or floated on a long leader and a floating line. An angler I know recently caught a 12lb RB on a small pink OD. Most fly fishers would regard the OD as a buzzer not a maggot imitation. Maggot imitations are cone shaped with a segmented body and no I don't use them.

as far as i know, and i could well be wrong, but i think the pattern was first tied and used at glensherrup by Scott Pozzi, happy to be corrected on that one tho.
Iv had loads of fish on it, straightlining from a drifting boat mainly, the wild brownies at our local club water love the original, white body orange head, fine silver rib. I also fish one with a stretched claret flexi floss rib and a black head ( not an okey dokey i know, but inspired bt it) and it was my top " buzzer" last year

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Agree with that. Its not a "buzzer" because its not imitating a buzzer. If its imitating anything its a maggot or docken grub, but that doesn't mean thats what the trout take it for - who knows why they take it and does it really matter anyway. Trout will take a blob fished static under a bung too, but I wouldn't call that a "buzzer" either and also have no idea why they would take it, but they do. The main benefit of naming a pattern is so that people know what you mean - so call it an okey doke and everyone knows what's meant, why would you want to confuse things by calling it a buzzer?

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Because for some people, if it's a buzzer it seems it's ok, but not if it imitates a maggot.
I was curious about the logic of it all
a) why trout who have never seen a maggot would take it because it imitates a maggot
b) why it would matter anyway - after all it is hardly fished through handfuls of loosefed maggots.

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