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Favorite Bluegill Fly


rFisherk

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Even though I'm old, I still love to hunt the first game I ever pursued (squirrels) and fish for the first kind of fish I caught (bluegill). I've evolved to use a .22 for squirrels and a fly rod for bluegill. You can catch bluegill on literally any kind of fly, but I think a weighted black fur ant is best. Most popular is small poppers, but thousands of outings have proven to me you can catch more and bigger panfish with something that sinks.

What your favorite bluegill fly?

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I'm awful fond of the BoogleBug poppers. Kinda spendy but they hold up great.

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A "black gnat" of sorts. 1/100oz jighead, painted black. Red or chartreuse marabou tail, only a few short fibers. Black chenille, black saddle hackle collar.

Sinks super slow, and the chartreuse works better for redear and crappie. Absolute killer with that slow fall.

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It has been years since I fly fished for bluegill due to my summertime schedule. I always loved poppers, usually just the cheap wally world ones that came in the circular package, and fell apart rather easily. For me, the joy of the bluegill is the topwater strike, I do enough nymphing for trout so anytime I can catch fish on top I will. I guess I probably fished them during the spawn when they were shallow, probably a lot more to catching them other times of the year. Anyone use a dropper off of a popper?

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rFisherk, that second picture of the bluegill on the stringer is a wallhanger! Other than smallmouth, they are one of my favorite fish to catch on a fly rod. I've had a lot of luck with yellow/black and chartreuse/white poppers. I love catching them on hoppers as well.

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Justin you owe it to yourself to get a few Boogle Bugs. They hold up great. Get a couple of #10's and # 8's.

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My friend ties a black bug similar to your ant with rubber legs that you cannot keep in the water too long before getting hit. In the lakes we fish, the bass hit them as well as the bluegill.

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I'll switch back and forth between a slow sinking spider and a popping bug depending on whether I'm searching or working fish I have found and how aggressive the fish are. The spiders are a simple pattern I tie, the poppers are the store bought bubble pack variety. I need a new source for the poppers, all of them need the hook gap opened and I seem to have much better success with one that have very small bodies, my boxes tend to be filled with the bugs I don't use. I did a search for Boogle Bugs, they look like a good fly but a bit heavy in the body. The search did turn up some custom bugs with the very small body profiles that looked just like the one from the store but with much better hooks.

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