What flies are you throwing for them right now? Let's get some pics and maybe a new idea or two going here.....
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What flies are you throwing for them right now? Let's get some pics and maybe a new idea or two going here.....
When the weather warms up a bit, my two go-to flies for bream ( bluegills, red ears etc.) are an all black leech tied on a a size 10 2xl hook or a black cap spider. I consistently catch more and larger fish subsurface than when using poppers or any other top water patterns.
Jim Smith
Boa yarn flies, Rubber legged dragon and the "Only".
Rick
Boa yarn leeches, woolly buggers, leech patterns, microjigs under an indicator, and gurglers (for topwater).
Wilson's Bully in black, olive, brown, and orange with matching or complementary 'legs'.....
Most generally when fishing the surface for bream/bluegill I'll use a popper (includes L/M bass, too). But like already posted, have caught more fish sub-surface and here of late, with Tenkara wet flies that I have tied ...!
All I've fished this spring is an olive krystal bugger!!!
Two years ago, when I first started Fly fishing, it was all about size 8 Olive Wooly Buggers and Betts poppers. Last year, it was mainly Gurgle-Pops and the Flicted Damsel from the FOTW. RIGHT NOW, I've been throwing a Muddler Minnow, tied on a size 12 3xl curved-shank hook, with a Purple and Starling bead head soft hackle tied on a size 12 scud hook. I keep the soft hackle on a drop about 12" below/behind the Muddler. Slowly stripped in, just fast enough make the Muddler "wake", just like a live minnow. I get hits on both flies, and I've caught 'gills, a Green Sunnie, a BG x GS Hybrid, and a small LMB.
I prefer top water, size 8 to 12 standard or fun foam poppers, gurglers and Chernobyl Ants, same size as the poppers, usually tied on 3XL or 4 XL hooks, Tony's Froggie. At times I'll tie a dropper to a larger popper, usually a bead head green weenie, white, black and fluorescent yellow also work. Sometimes a BHPT. Subsurface, I like small baitfish patterns. This year I'm trying a pattern I learned over the winter, called a Hoo Fly, 1-2" long. Tied on small SC15s or Mosquito hooks.
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There's the two I've been fishing. I tie the grey one on top, and hang of the soft hackles below/behind the Muddler by about 12"