Sneaky duck fly

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Comment by dick tabbert on January 12, 2014 at 12:57pm

Great fly Don looks like is going to be a keeper.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 12, 2014 at 12:08pm

Good info fellas. I catch plenty of decent sized gills on #8, plus I can see and handle that size when tying things like these disc flys

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on January 12, 2014 at 11:00am

SKIP MORRIS early in his life was an avid Rod Builder also, for those who didn't know . Had his rod building book once but sold it I think......

Comment by jim cosgrove on January 12, 2014 at 10:58am

i never fish for gills with anything larger than a 12 in my area.i just am a lot more successful in this size range.my bass stuff i start at 4 for clousers and go up from there.i dont get much interest from the bass on gill flies.i do catch a lot of crappies gill fishing.the bass here feed well on stunted bluegills and tadpoles and frogs,don i like your fly a lot and am gonna try it in size 4 down to 12 or 14.i have tons of foam and lots of sizes of punches

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 12, 2014 at 10:15am

I select #8's as a bridge, or gap size, for bluegill. It helps me tie a fly I can actually see, and also helps select for the larger specimens.* I got this notion from an angler you may have heard of, Mr. Skip Morris. Skip makes much of what he calls the "Bluegill-Bass Overlap," or just the "'lap." It goes something like this:

"So what exactly is the bass-bluegill lap?

 Picture in your mind all the creatures that largemouth bass and bluegills might eat.

Line up those creatures in order of size, the little insects like chironomid pupae progressing to such bigger ones as dragonfly nymphs and finally to those that now seem enormous—frogs and salamanders and even warm-blooded mice.

Draw a circle around the likely bluegill foods; draw another around the bass foods. Now look at your circles—the second circle overlaps the first.

And that's it, that space in which the two circles meet—that's the bass-bluegill lap."

excerpted from, "The Bass Bluegill Lap," Skip Morris Fly Tying.com

Read more: http://www.skip-morris-fly-tying.com/the-bass-bluegill-lap.html#ixz...

* It so happens that I am an unapologetic bass lover. I fish mostly for panfish, and especially those in the genus, machrochirus. But, any bass that wants to pounce my bait or lure is just fine with me.

Comment by Donald Schmotzer on January 12, 2014 at 9:33am

 

  Yes, I tie some on #8 hooks too, but my favorite for gills is #10's. The bigger sneaky Ducks I tie on #4's.

  I think you will be pleased once the water gets warm and you can fish these..........Don in SC

Comment by Donald Schmotzer on January 12, 2014 at 9:29am

Yes, at Heavenly ranch I once  had a slow day only caught a few of those wonderful Copper-heads. I had to keep unhooking those pesky Green Carp, thirty-two times that day.  Its hard to get the Copper-heads to bite when those Green Carp chase them away and grab my fly. ( I have had worse fishing days )....Don in SC 

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 12, 2014 at 9:00am

"Glass Half Full" kinda guy - thats me.

I'll take a green trout like that any day. Lots of fun and kinda the point behind fishing - catching.

Luckily they are in all the waters I access.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on January 11, 2014 at 11:37pm

Awesome!! Love to have those green carps on my platters.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 11, 2014 at 9:48pm

tied several with and without legs.

Mine are in bluegill sizes, on #8 short hooks - an inch or so long.

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