Author Topic: favorite bluegill flies (Read 2229 times)

jim · « **on:** January 11, 2003, 05:32:30 AM »

what are some of your favorie bluegill flies ?
Mine are size 14 pheasant tail , size 10 yellow wooly buggers , size 12 maribou buggers.

jim

Graybeard · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2003, 08:26:17 AM »

Little sponge spiders with rubber legs.

GB

CPB · « **Reply #2 on:** January 11, 2003, 10:47:19 AM »

Mine are Crickets and small yellow cork bodied poppers.

They work for bass too.

harley · « **Reply #3 on:** January 13, 2003, 09:49:52 AM »

I like small frog colored poppers- green & white, green & yellow- best have rubber legs like GB's spiders. I get a lot of largemouths on larger deer hair poppers as well!! Big fun.

flatlander · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2003, 04:17:35 PM »

wooly buggers, wooly grubbers, poppers, and another pattern called the bitch creek. It is a stonefly nymph that is yellow or orange and black with rubber legs. That is pretty much the only flies I've ever had to use around here. One of them will always work.

Old Cane · « **Reply #5 on:** January 15, 2003, 08:32:41 AM »

Being almost a dry-fly snob, I like Parachute Adams, Royal Coachman and well, Adams. If I have to (I run out of dries), I'll use a PT nymph.

Tom W. · « **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2003, 04:04:09 PM »

The little rascals like a yellow jacket patterned sinker, a small pencil popper in white, and if you're brave enough, kick in a fire ant bed that's built next to the pond bank, wait about 5 minutes, and tie on ANYTHING!

SingleShotShorty · « **Reply #7 on:** October 08, 2003, 06:50:49 AM »

Thats easy a black ant, it's easy to tie and really stacks up the gills.

SQUACKS · « **Reply #8 on:** February 08, 2005, 04:11:30 PM »

my favorite gill fly.

i use what i call a black hackle starling.

it is tied on a #10 3906 mustad.

it has a short red wool tail, black wool body and a soft webby starling body feather tied in a wet type collar.

this is a very durable fly and easily tied. it is of course subsurface and works anytime of the year.