Mysterious Fly

Last November while fishing for big browns and steelhead near Rochester the guy on the river who caught the most fish was using this fly that I cannot identify or find. Hopefully someone here knows of it. It was built on an 8x long hook and was basically just wrapped with real smooth dubbing and then wrapped with hackle. If you looked at on one end it was brown, from the other end it flashed tan. It sorta looked like a super-long wooly bugger with no tail. He gave my buddy one of his, but it got lost. Does anybody know what this thing is? I am not going to let it go until I know what it was and can find a recipe for it....

Thanks,
Hunter

Pity you don't have a photo of it, Hunter. Also pity that guy didn't tell you where he got it from

I have tried other forums, and got suggestions like bivisible, griffiths gnat, and crackleback. But these are little dries that can be fished wet. This critter wouldn't float unless you hung it from a hot air balloon! I think I'll try to get some 10x long hooks and try to duplicate it...

Hunter

I am trying to imagine what it could be but perhaps it had to do with the shape of it?

It kinda sounds like a modified woolly worm. I've never seen anything like what you are describing, but it can be made.

John