Kansas Fish-in swap - AKA bluegills!

This swap is in honor of our Kansas fish-in. You don’t have to attend to participate, but our theme is going to focus primarily on the bluegill/sunfish/bream since that is what we are primarily after. Any of your bluegill-gettin’ patterns is acceptable here. My thought is that this swap should inspire our tying before the fish-in.
I’m going to make this one a little larger than usual due to the popularity of the bluegill theme. I’m going to sign up the first 15 people who commit to this one.
Standard rules apply. Please either post your recipe on this thread, or on the toetag. Make sure each fly is toetagged. Ship your 15 flies in a crushproof container with return packaging and postage (no metered mail) to me no later than March 31.
Sign up deadline is Feb 28, or until we have 15 tyers. Thanks for signing up!

  1. ol’ blue - bully’s bluegill spider
  2. quivera kid - bluegill chow - RECEIVED
  3. steveks - bead chain eyed hares ear soft hackle - RECEIVED
  4. hugefish_80 - bugger - RECEIVED
  5. ibrb - mega bee - RECEIVED
  6. GLoy - ez foam hopper - RECEIVED
  7. white43 - gillbuster - RECEIVED
  8. ldice - Sarge’s crappie fly - RECEIVED
  9. SteveP - cotton candy charlie - RECEIVED
  10. foambug65 - pink hopper/diver - RECEIVED
  11. WWKimba - alpaca dart - RECEIVED
  12. hugefish80 - RECEIVED
  13. laurenks - green lantern - RECEIVED
  14. green lantern - black sparkle thingy - RECEIVED
  15. tlerm - McGinty - RECEIVED

Blue, I’m game! Can’t wait for the get-together. I will post up my pattern after I think about what I want to tie.

Zac

steveks also wants in… He told me to sign him up so he for sure gets a spot!

Got ya both in!

Blue,

I would like to get in this swap with a foam beetle.

Cal E. Batis

I am going to try to go to Kansas this year.

You are in. Glad to hear there’s another considering coming to our bluegill party.

Yep I am in on this one. I will tie a beadcahin eyed hares ear soft hackle. Its a pattern that I got bored on a thursday night and tied up. It caught a lot of fish the next morning.

Won’t make the fish in, but would like to join the swap. pattern will be a Mega Bee.

I would like in on this one also, love chasin them gills, eating them to i might add…I will do my ez foam hopper in grn/blk size 10
thanks gary

You are on the list.

I’ll play with a Gillbuster.

ol’ blue I would like to join. The club that belong to in Lawrence " home of the #1 ranked Jayhawks" has a member that has come up with a nice crappie fly. The fly is called “Sarge’s crappie fly” watching the member fish with his fly he seem’s to slaughter the crappie/bluegill.

I’ve decided to tie a “Bluegill Chow”… My version of DG’s “Trout Chow” fly.

Hook: Mustad C068 wet/nymph caddis
Thread: Red 8/0 Uni
Tail: chartreuse floss
Body: dark olive chenille, medium
Collar: partridge

I use brown/olive varigated, brown, and several other colors of chenille for this fly. Dark colors seem to work best.

I think I have everyone on the list. Thanks for joining up!

I’m in with a cotton candy charlie, hoping to make the fish-in as well.

Steve

is it full …i will be in if so …if so i will tell you by tonite what i am tying

Love to join in. This my first swap and sounds fun. I’ve fished for these panfish for 40+ yrs. and tied flies for ~25 years. If you don’t mind I’ll tie an Alpaca dart.

Everyone is in, and we have 4 spots left.

pink hopper/diver…youll see…lol

If its ok my daughter would like to get in on this. I just got her registered on here and she helps me tie, she will tie one that Quivira kid calls the green lantren.