Dappling for Bluegills (karma)

Went to a little city park pond Friday afternoon. Took my old pal who had called up wanting a little angling fix. Without going on a long drive to a "hot spot" this was our best bet.

So, armed with one and two weight rods respectively, we sallied forth to do battle with bream.

After an hour or so of general hoonage and bluegills on the fly we went up on the dock and started dappling dry flies on the surface. You could see the little farts come up and greedily inspect the fly as it danced over the surface, lightly dropping down on occasion. We got a few to come up out of the water in their avarice and anger to nab that darned bug. (As an aside, I realize that I am anthropomophizing here but it sounds more fun!)

It made up for all those years and all those pieces of earthworm stolen from oh so many hooks in oh so many places.

That does it. That sounds like fun. I'm going to tie a few of those dapping flies I saw in Mike Dawes "Flytier's Companion". Add a saddle feather tail and some plastic eyes to a few and I'll have some Hard Hackle worms as well.

-TM

Sounds like you had lots of fun. Aren't those bream a hoot on the light weight rigs? I just love it! :D

Simply....YAHOOOO! 8) :D

They are indeed. Now I just need to get to a pond where some big boys hang out! And hang on

You can learn a lot from a dock with small willing to feed fish that you can see.

It sounded like you had a lot of fun.

Try dapping a small popper ;)

There's a lake in Wisconsin we go camping at every year. If you're sitting on the rocks, and really patient so the bluegills get used to you, you can dap the surface with a finger tip, and the bluegills will come out to inspect it.

I had fun dapping a wooly worm last night and caught a ton of these guys. Of course the bigger fish came from actually fishing the fly the way it is intended, but it was great fun to fish a sinking fly on the top 3 feet out from the bank!