Blue Gill Fly Designed For Tipping With Bait

[mic]

I was wondering this weekend as I was fly fishing for gills what a type of fly I could design for spin fishing that was built specifically to tip with worms. Any ideas?

[Flysmallie]

I think a bare hook would be the best.

[mic]

What fun is that.

[Flysmallie]

It's called easy fun.

Once you tip anything with a worm the gills could care less, all they know is that the worm is what they are after. They lose their minds when they see a worm. So really anything that you create to tip with a worm is going to be successful.

[jdmidwest]

The part about a fly designed for spin casting then adding bait tends to be a stumper. To spin cast, you need additional weight to cast right. Then to add a worm as a kicker and keep it on and not cast it off?

Maybe a woolie bugger with a spinner in front and a bait hook trailer!

[Lancer09]

The worm will muck up any material you have on the hook. If you want the weight to cast go with a long streamer hook. Big db eyes and some dubbing figure 8 wraps.

Otherwise just use a jig hook.

[fishinwrench]

You don't have to fiddle with live bait, just superglue one of these to a 1/64oz. trout sized jighead and watch the gills go completely batshit over it.

http://www.southernpro.com/TW.cfm

One color, Black, is all you need.

You can put a soft hackle collar on it if you just gotta tinker....but it's far from necessary.

[Corky 69]

I think you need to use either a fly by it self or bait by its self, no purpose using a fly tipped with bait. They do make a weighted float that makes it easy to cast light flies or bait with a spinning rod. Almost any fly with rubber legs will work. I like to use black with white legs or black and yellow with white legs.

[Amery]

Hoppers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!