Bluegill Fly Rodders

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Comment by Lord of the Fly , Rods on July 22, 2013 at 8:03am

Crickets on a flyrod,"What more a tasty morsal a bluegill could ask for",   LOFR

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on July 22, 2013 at 7:50am

Leo would call it that. "Hybridization"... I like .

Comment by Leo Nguyen on July 22, 2013 at 7:40am

Ken, if that's crazy..well..I'm with you. 1/32oz and 1/100oz jigs, fly rod, tipped with crawler, using fly rod, and a mini spinner reel. Yeah..welcome to the world of hybridization.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on July 21, 2013 at 7:11pm

Yes Ken it is crazy - but its awesome!

Comment by Slip Sinker on July 21, 2013 at 6:19pm

is it crazy for me to lob a 1/32 oz jig baited with a cricket along with a small float just to take a gill on a flyrod?

Comment by Slip Sinker on July 21, 2013 at 6:17pm

Justin... i live in michigan but hopefully i will be spending time in florida this winter. ive been catching alot of bluegills on an orange ant with white legs ... bluegills up here in mi are hitting this like crazy.

Comment by Justin on July 15, 2013 at 4:00pm

any of you from florida if so what are are the gills hiting on the fly rod what are you using

Comment by Lee on July 14, 2013 at 6:44am

 A friend of mine did recently send me a nice assortment of leaders from Cortland to try out. Their called Cortland Precision with a taper designed for Bass/Bluegill supposed to have better knot strength and be more abrasion resistant. If the wind and rain ever quits I hope to try them out soon :)

 

Comment by Lee on July 14, 2013 at 6:39am

 Great story Ken, as far as leaders though you don't need expensive tapered leaders for Bluegill and Bass on my 3wt outfit for top water I normally just tie on a 6 foot length of 20lb mono and then a 3 foot section of 6 or 8lb mono. The mono floats and will help keep your top waters on top. To straighten it and take off the sheen I use one of the little leather patches with the rubber inside. This set up will cast and turnover just fine.

 For sinking flies/streamers I use Floro which sinks and a slightly shorter set up....I'd much rather fish on top if I can it's just so much fun to see the strike :)

Comment by John Sheehan on July 13, 2013 at 7:43pm

Great account Ken !A pleasure to read! I am the uncringing occasional flyrodding  type and use mono to tie leaders to fly line  .I have a surplus of Garcia Royal Bonyl 4 and 6# test tippet I tie into 12 # test leader. I lost several flies in bushes and trees  using 2# test .Best thing I did ,other than improve my casting ,was to go to 4 # test at the end .I may have you cringing now! Lol .

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