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I have posted this before but......there are some new people as i see and i am sure some of u others have walked uppon new patterns so...hit me with them! I am sure some newcomers will be very happy and will look up some of these patterns if they can! If possible just pick ur favorite bluegill pattern and post the name and all that good stuff! man i can't wait for some post I will be glad to get some new patterns on my list!!
thanks,
FisherKid93
Fisherkid,
Easy question; gurgle pops in size #12 or size #10 in white, yellow, or chartreuse. I also carry a few in a neutral color such as tan or brown. Good luck! 8T http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
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You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it's a real short camping season.
sure thing, fisherkid.
I've got two favorites, both of which I'd like to think I invented.
The first is a little foam fly whose name I won't mention. It's got eight legs, and is green and black. Here is a photo: [url=http://www.reagleelk.photosite.com/FAOLMarathonTerrestrials/:b7fa3]http://www.reagleelk.photosite.com/FAOLMarathonTerrestrials/[/url:b7fa3]
Second, I like a little size 10 conehead bugger with no hackle. I like them best in olive. When you omit the hackle, and use a conehead, it ends up being a little olive bullet. This fly has probably caught more bluegill for me than I'd like to admit.
size 6-10 poppers and sliders, size 10 woolly buggers with some sparkle to them, and any simple soft hackle under the sun. These are all simple and durable flies which is important when the action is fast. If things slow down, the most effective thing is usually to stick with the same pattern and size that's been working, but switch colors.
This one is my favorite:
[url=http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ghileman@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=96de&.dnm=46efre2.jpg&.src=ph: 273b7]stone variant[/url:273b7]
I call it a stone variant for lack of a better name.
You should also look through some of these pictures of some of our previous bluegill swaps from here on FAOL:
[url=http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ghileman@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=96de&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.do ne=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ghileman@sbcglobal.net/my_photos:273b7]bluegillswap 2[/url:273b7]
[url=http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ghileman@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=98e5&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.do ne=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ghileman@sbcglobal.net/my_photos:273b7]bluegillswap 3[/url:273b7]
[url=http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ghileman@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=bd3f&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.do ne=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ghileman@sbcglobal.net/my_photos:273b7]gotobluegill swap[/url:273b7]
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http://laflyfish.com/flies/jitterbee.jpg [url=http://laflyfish.com/flies/jitterbee.php:da52b]http://laflyfish.com/flies/jitterbee.php[/url:da52b]
http://laflyfish.com/flies/cap-spider.jpg [url=http://laflyfish.com/flies/cap-spider.php:da52b]http://laflyfish.com/flies/cap-spider.php[/url:da52b]
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Hi Kid,
This time of year, a spider is darned
hard to beat. My favorite is an 8 legged
white widow. Warm regards, Jim
The above are all flies that I'd surely fish with.
In addition, little brown or black patterns (PT nymph, etc. etc.) are great little bluegill flies.
There is some semi-famous quote about 99% of all that fish eat is small, brown and wiggly
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RRhyne56
[url=http://www.robinscustomleadersandflies.com:f004b]Sweetness On The Water[/url:f004b]
[url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/bgl/:f004b]Good Ol? Lepomis Macrochirus[/url:f004b]
Well, I was watching closely when Peter F. posted that he caught 90% of his bluegills and bass last year on a size 8 yellow gurgle-pop.
So, of course, I tied some of those up and headed out. I've had a great time fishing almost exclusively that very fly from my kayak.
Lots of bluegills and I may be forced to put a cooler in the back so I can take 'em back home. About every sixth fish is a LM. I've also discovered that some pretty big bass like those size 8 gurgle-pops. In fact, the biggest LM I've ever caught sucked one of them down last weekend!
Probably not so big for real bass anglers, but big for me -- about 20". So right now, I'm liking those gurgle-pops.
Jitterbee, Gill Buster, Peacock Herl Bugger, Soft Hackle, Boa Yarn Leech, Hare n Copper NZ-styled nymph, Gurgle Pop in no particular order. JGW
ol'blue,
that fuzzygrub3 looks like a really nice fly i really think it will be a blue killer!!
thanks,
FisherKid93
P.S: The pictures are great!! i hope we get more!! I bet some of you better tiers are getting some patterns for your self instead of giving out!!
I have 10 in the panfish archives and the fly of the week last week.
Rick
Hello All,
For me, the Texas BullFrog on the surface:
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/061603fotw.html:43a7b]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/061603fotw.html[/url:43a7b]
And the Black Widow below the surface:
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/050503fotw.html:43a7b]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/050503fotw.html[/url:43a7b]
Cheers,
Richard
Still Hot Here in North Texas
Here is a list of the ones I use most often with a few new ones in no particular order http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif.
Yellow foam pusher (Dremel Bug) #8
White/iridescent Crease Fly #4
White Spongy Spider #8
Yellow CLP (Cheap Little Popper) #8
Yellow Gurgle Pop #8
Clear/Tan Rainy's Beadback Scud #10
White Gill Getter #10
Dixie Bug #8 or #10
Black Boa Yarn Leech (new!) #10
Black Crow Body Feather Leech (new!) #10
Black Marabou Damsel Nymph #10
Flashback HEN (Hare's Ear Nymph) #10
Flashback PTN (Pheasant Tail Nymph) #10
Iridescent/pearl Cypert's Minnow #8
McGinty #10
Jitterbee #8
And more.... but I use these probably most often.
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Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL
"Flip a fly"
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White spider, yellow wooly worm with grizzly hackle & foam beetle.
Mike
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You can call me Mike & you can call me Mikey..Just remember that this site's about sharing!
Skip Morris SMP. Black with red eyes and red crystal flash.
Rick Z forgot to mention that his all time favorites are either a #10 black/olive Woolly Bugger, or a #10 GRH. *G*
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Every fly fisherman has an unreasonable view of fly rods, and I am no different. Thomas McGuane
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anquish. Prov 31:6
Peacock herl woolly bugger with a short marabou tail (red or chartreuse) and palmered with grizzly hackle (wet or dry). Sizes 16-20.
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Eric "nighthawk"
American veteran and proud of it!
This one works well too:
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/052801fotw.html:ae39c]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/052801fotw.html[/url:ae39c]
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Eric "nighthawk"
American veteran and proud of it!
FisherKid, RW here
My own design..."The Rainbow Variant" dry fly. I won't brag on my own fly, but maybe my ol friend Jim Hatch will post a little testimonial as to how many gills he and a buddy caught the last time they fished it together.
<RW> "The Man, The Myth, The Legend"
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"Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed." <John Gierach>
well jim,
i would like to her bout your last fishin trip with ur buddy and how many gills you caught.....it sounds like a goodin!
FisherKid93
I mostly try to stay on the surface. Gurglers are fantastic and a dropper if I get hard up. Also noticed that sometimes when they ignore the gurgler/dropper combo the spider seems to be just the ticket. Regarding the color, it's anything I can see.
I tied an ugly fly last week that so far has out performed everything else I have for panfish, with the exception of the Black Widow.
I noticed in Wal-Mart a while back, that people were buying these little green foam spiders with white legs like they were going out of style. About 3 weeks ago, I was playing at my Fly Tying desk and thought I would try to duplicate it, sort of.
I have an Orvis dubbing assortment of Angora Goat, so I used a size 12 dry-fly hook (Mustad 94840) , and wrapped a ball of the light olive-colored dubbing at the bend of the hook to about the mid-shank. I tied on a white Chinese hen-neck hackle at mid-shank, and made another ball of the same Lt. Olive dubbing up to the eye, then whip-finished and laquered the head.
I took a few to a local small lake that is full of 'Gills. They hit them like pirahnas! I tried several other patterns, just to be sure it was the fly, and it out performed everything I had except the Black Widow (which is pretty much a 'can't miss' panfish fly). I don't even have a name for it. It looks like a hairy green spider (sort of) with white legs, and moves great in the water. It sinks slowly on the retrieve (if you get that far with it. Most fish hit it as soon as it landed).
Semper Fi!
"This year" it's been a yellow foam spider type fly and an ice-dub leech with a beadhead.
donald
i was looking back at this cause i was trying to find some new flys and i was amazed at how many people participated in giving fly patterns and taking them in i hope that we could have some more patterns on this subject! I learned so much and i hope i could learn some more! thanks.....
PS: i looked at the pictures and they were great if we could have more that would be great! thanks and i hope u learned something
here's the question! "(If you could choose between 5 million dollars and fly fishing for 2hours with your dad what would you choose")["i would choose fishing with my dad!"]
FisherKid93
Caught 12 on it today.
Hi Fisherkid,
My favorite pattern is about as pure vanilla as it gets. Foam spider.
I tie them on #10 and #12 Mustad 9672s, craft foam body, 8 rubber legs, and the colors that seem to work best for me are yellow, chartreuse, and peach. Friend Steve got me started on them.
If those don't work, I may try a gray hackle peacock, some variety of pheasant tail, or a chenille bug of some type. I have a few other patterns that I have faith in too like a baby bass pattern, woolly worms, buggers, and others.
I have a bunch of bluegill flies, but usually fish only a few simple patterns. If things get desperate I may try one of the others. A friend told me that I have enough bluegill flies for half of the county.
It's too much fun to fish the spiders or a popper on the surface for me to go to a nymph at first. Although at this time of year the surface flies stay in the box.
Regards,
Gandolf
Id have to say the by far best gill pattern is an extended body mayfly with a wrapped deer hair tail and some chenille for a body with a good hackle wrapped around it. you can do this in any color but i like black chenille and brown hackle.
You took the words right out of my mouth, Richard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Komar
In addition, I also like a small bi-colored Chernobyle Ant, and small Gurgle-Pops.
Semper Fi!
Wooly bugger - #12 with a peack body and black rabbit fur tail.
The Alien is my favorite top water now. I prefer a chartruese body with yellow legs and foam.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytyin ... 5fotw.html
today i went fishing at a near by pond and caught around 50 bluegill,
and i caught each one of them with a pattern that was talked about on this subject!!
this was a great subject i loved it and i havnt been on in a while but i dont like the update
that much because im not used to it but i think i can adapt.....but im back and will be posting
like crazy!! ha ha ha :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: