Got A Big One Today

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06-21-2009, 02:22 AM
cycler68

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Got A Big One Today

I went to a private pond with the fly fishing club today and got my biggest bluegill in years. I am one happy fisherman!
06-21-2009, 11:20 AM
ohiotuber

Very nice gill! Fought like a bear, didn't it?. What fly did you use?
Congrats & thanks for sharing.
Mike
06-21-2009, 12:38 PM
cycler68

I used a chartreuse bully spider on sinking line because I had read that the bigger ones would be deeper. While I don't think this one was especially deep it worked and yes, he fought like a bear. I thought I had a nice bass or catfish on the way he kept boring for the bottom.
06-24-2009, 01:49 AM
FishOhio

Nice gill, private ponds are the best lunker gill factories in the world.
06-24-2009, 03:52 AM
crappiecrazy

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Originally Posted by cycler68

I used a chartreuse bully spider on sinking line because I had read that the bigger ones would be deeper. While I don't think this one was especially deep it worked and yes, he fought like a bear. I thought I had a nice bass or catfish on the way he kept boring for the bottom.

Nice Gill! How did you like the sinking line?
06-24-2009, 04:24 AM
Midwest Custom Fly Rods

Wow that's a real plump lil' football right there, nice gill:cool:
06-24-2009, 08:14 PM
cycler68

crappiecrazy wrote:

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Nice Gill! How did you like the sinking line?

I was using type II sinking line on my 4 wt. rod and it seemed to work just fine. I was making fairly short casts so it wasn't much bother to bring it up for the next cast and yet it got the fly deeper faster than I would have had I been using floating line with no split shot. I'm thinking of using this combo more in the future and see if I can catch more big bluegills and crappies. It may even help put a few more perch in the boat.
06-24-2009, 10:12 PM
gqualls

Looks like a handful. Those are fun fish on a flyrod. Thanks for sharing.
06-25-2009, 01:48 AM
crappiecrazy

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Originally Posted by cycler68

crappiecrazy wrote:
I was using type II sinking line on my 4 wt. rod and it seemed to work just fine. I was making fairly short casts so it wasn't much bother to bring it up for the next cast and yet it got the fly deeper faster than I would have had I been using floating line with no split shot. I'm thinking of using this combo more in the future and see if I can catch more big bluegills and crappies. It may even help put a few more perch in the boat.

Thanks for the info. I would like to try sinking line sometime for summertime gills and crappie.