Bluegill Fly Rodders

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Comment by carl hendrix on February 25, 2015 at 6:56pm

hey Kevin--  do you use those spiders as a dropper on a popping bug ?  I do!!  I make a legion type bream killer-  deadly little thing to!!

Comment by jim cosgrove on February 25, 2015 at 4:42pm

tie on hook both ends of a piece .this should leave you with a loop.insert some thing in the loop and twist it til it starts getting taught.now fold the end of the loop back toward where you tied in the ends.it should wind around itself.you could look it up on google too.sure there are vids

Comment by Kevin on February 25, 2015 at 4:27pm

does anyone know how to make a rubber furled tail similar to the one on the tail of a wilson brim killer fly??

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on November 24, 2014 at 6:01am

Good info.
The color changing thing was a new one on me. I assumed they adapted as a group to their local surroundings through natural selection.
The dubbing blend is great, easy to make as I thought. They remind me of Briminators, without the hackle collar.
Thanks.

Comment by Mark Sleeper on November 24, 2014 at 5:46am

thanks for the info  Mark

Comment by Gillbuster on November 24, 2014 at 5:08am

These flies can either be weighted with a couple of wraps of lead first then dub over it to get them to sink down deeper in the water column when out deeper in the lakes or ponds... when trolling I have experimented & had great luck with sinking line slowly kicking along with a float tube, the kicking action give these flies life... although unweighted with just bead chains eyes & sinking slowly with is deadly;  floating line and intermediate line works well also closer to the shore line, Gills hit this flies aggressively, also have caught  trout , bass, crappie,  and perch , I try to match the color with the same color bottom of the pond...brown for wood, green for vegetation, black for muddy, grey for clay bottoms, most insects can change colors, camouflage themselves with the same surrounding colors from  predators that way. I also cast them along the edge of the shoreline and have tremendous consistent  action with a 3-4wt fly rod

To make the dubbing , I cut the kip tail to about 1/4" to 1/3" in length... make my own dubbing, mix different colors to the type of ponds & lakes I am fishing...I mix 75% kip tail amount with 25% rabbit fur to make the dubbing  bind better on the thread, again the more uglier, wilder and buggier these flies are; the more aggressive and  faster the action is..You can make hundreds of flies with one or 2 calf tails and rabbit fur....#10 to 14 size I find the best...

I find Big Brahma  gills are DEEP... and so I love trolling these flies slowly. I think the bead chain eyes is a HUGE attractor, fish identify this a a high protein food source from a far distance and they clobber it. Try trolling it with tandem fly set up and OMG!... watch out... Gills, Bass & Crappie "fish up", they look up and ambush their prey from underneath... I have often caught 2 fish at a time and see gills come up 6 foot in the water column to take these flies...have fun and try them out, try different tails sources...Use a fine Seine net at the edge of a pond/river/creek and you'll be amazed to discover the amount of dragon fly nymph and similar other type of ugly looking nymphs/bugs that live directly under our feet...Pond biology 101... Fascinating, the meat and potatoes of fish world...go get'em boys

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on November 23, 2014 at 3:57pm

You could chop the calf hair and others together to make a dubbing.

Comment by jim cosgrove on November 23, 2014 at 3:55pm

nice flies,maybe i can do something with the 20 something kip tails i got a deal on a couple years ago.

Comment by Mark Sleeper on November 23, 2014 at 2:56pm

yes also interested in dubbing /kiptail

Comment by Richard Allen Rupp on November 23, 2014 at 2:11pm

I am also interested in your dubbing. The flies look super fishy

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