My Bluegill Bug

[msubobcats]

Tied with a #10 or #12 nymph hook

I use a beadhead, sometimes painted, sometimes not as you can see.

Using different colors of chenille for the body and thorax, and a lacquered wild turkey feather (the luminescent kind from the breast) and wrapped over the top of the thorax.

Sili legs tied in last.

This fly started out as a Montana Stonefly Nymph about 15 years ago and has morphed into what you see here. I have lost the tail from the MSF and replaced the hackle with the sili legs. I mix and match all kids of colors, with the turkey feather and beadhead remaining the only constants.

This KILLS bluegill. When fully wet, they sink about two inches a second, slowly drifting down on the beds.

Go Cats

[Jeremy Hunt]

Nicely tied.

[bowfin47]

Love it!

[DD'sMC]

My dad, who lives in your neck of the woods (Oronogo), is just getting back into tying flies. He hasn't messed with flies for more than 20 years, but he's been looking for a pattern for Bluegill. I'll pass your recipe along. Thanks for the post.

[Yakfly]

This KILLS bluegill. When fully wet, they sink about two inches a second....

Go Cats

Nice tie.

I'll bet it also catches a trout or two, drifted thru the riffles. Shorten the legs a tad and you have a great riffle beetle.

[Fishing Milwright]

Your fly looks very nice.

I was wondering if you wrapped the turkey feather for the end of the fly or used peacock herl and then bring the lacqured turkey feather over the top.

[msubobcats]

Your fly looks very nice.

I was wondering if you wrapped the turkey feather for the end of the fly or used peacock herl and then bring the lacqured turkey feather over the top.

I just tie in the chenille body/abdomen, then the feather to the hook, then tie in the chenille thorax (not peacock herl, even though it looks like it. It's just some glittery chenille). Then pull the feather over the thorax and tie in at the eye. Then the legs. The biggest problem with this method is sometimes the feather will split, or just not lay right on the top.

But, in the end, they're just bluegill. They still chew on it...

I think tonight I'll tie one and post the pics in stages. It's so easy, it's hard to call myself a fly tier, really...

Go Cats

[msubobcats]

I think tonight I'll tie one and post the pics in stages. It's so easy, it's hard to call myself a fly tier, really...

Change of plans. Lightning hit the house, again, and set the darn thing in fire, again. House in ok shape (liveable), just another round of insurance adjusters, bids, quotes, replacement computers, phone lines, alarms, insulation, t.v.'s, hot tub...you get the idea. Time to get a lightning rod system I guess.

Anyway, will not have the time for tying anything for awhile.

Go Cats

[jdmidwest]

Lightening hit twice in the same place? Where do you live? Do you have a metal roof?

I have had several customers nailed this year, seem worse than others. One guy had it come in his water heater vent pipe and blew a hole out of his roof. New house, lived there a month, no trees around. Another last week came in blew garage door opener apart and damaged Avalanche parked in garage. Again, new house on golf course, no trees around. It did not start any fires.

[Flysmallie]

Don't know what you call it but Lightning Bug fits. I'm sorry I didn't mean to poke fun at your situation, but it is a good name.

Hope you are doing well and that's a nice looking bug.