By pointing the fibers forward, the hackle would undulate during the retrieve. Martinez attached the hackle at the bend of the hook by the butt and wound it forward with the dull or concave side facing the hook eye. The original woolly worm designed by Martinez had a black chenille body with a Grizzly hackle wound along the body and a Grizzly hackle tip for a tail. The movement of the hackle is what gets them, suggesting perhaps the waving breathing apparatus of the may-fly nymphs and others." They should be used only in still or very slow water, fished deep, with a twitching of the line by the left hand. I hate the looks of them and consider them more a lure than a fly, but they have had a boom for the two seasons last past with no sign of a let up. I made and sold as many of these things as all other flies combined last summer. Properly fished it is murderous all season long. "This horrible looking grub, Woolly Worm, is a made over bass and crappie fly. In the 1940, he wrote to Preston Jennings notes on the Woolly Worm: Don Martinez is generally regarded as the individual who developed the modern-day Woolly Worm for trout fishing. Don Martinez, a West Yellowstone Fly Fisherman from California, received this pattern from a friend in Arkansas sometime in the late 1930's and created variations that he called "Woolly Worms".
Sometime in the 1920's, this pattern was introduced into the United States from England and was used as a Smallmouth Bass Fly in the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas. Brookes book, "The Art of Angling" (1770). One variation, the Palmer Fly, was shown on the cover of R. McClane (The Practical Fly Fisherman, 1975), Izaak Walton described the fly in "The Compleat Angler' (1653) as a simulation of a caterpillar known as the Woolly Bear. The Woolly Worm utilizes a palmered hackle along the entire hook shank which has been documented as early as the 1500's during Napoleon’s time.
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