bluegills

[quivira kid]

What flies are you throwing for them right now? Let's get some pics and maybe a new idea or two going here.....

[James Smith]

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

[Rick Z]

Boa yarn flies, Rubber legged dragon and the "Only".

Rick

[FishnDave]

Boa yarn leeches, woolly buggers, leech patterns, microjigs under an indicator, and gurglers (for topwater).

[gordo7]

Wilson's Bully in black, olive, brown, and orange with matching or complementary 'legs'.....

[DaleW]

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 ...!

[smij]

All I've fished this spring is an olive krystal bugger!!!

[AllenOK]

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.

[Philly]

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.

[AllenOK]

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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"