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Comment by Rob Gay on May 7, 2010 at 5:49am
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Eric, I bought them off of the auction site, I am unable to tie flies cause of a problem with my left hand...wish I could tho...they are a good fly...one of the goto flies in my box...
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Comment by thomas j swank on May 7, 2010 at 5:42am
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Ive never heard of a bubba spider. I would be glad to pay for an assortmentt if anyone has the time. Is this a regional fly? In northern Indiana the gills are just moving in. no beds yet. Anyone fish with ratsos?
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Comment by Tim C. Homesley on May 6, 2010 at 6:53pm
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I've used and tied alot of the bubba spiders, I sell the jig heads in my shop, the work good on trout also.
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Comment by Eric on May 6, 2010 at 6:45pm
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Did you tie them yourself?
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Actually did some fishing today using a cap spider on a sinking furled leader...was only able to spend a short time but had 3 nice ones on but ldr on them...but did manage to get a real nice redear 10 1/2 inches...It was a great time on my 2wt...my personal best redear..
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Has anyone ever tried those bubba spiders? Looks like a small jig head with a wrapped body and some celi legs around the jig head. I've seen something similar called a cap spider. Anybody know anything about those?
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I agree with Lee. I've caught decent ones on #8 poppers to. But 10 or 12 seem to produce. The bigger ones seem to be below the surface to. The bigest I've caught were nymph-like bottom flies or sub surface variations. Spiders seem to do well. Especially this time of year.
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Comment by Lee Nagel on May 5, 2010 at 4:00am
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I'm mostly a size 10 or 12 kinda guy. Small enough to get the gills but big enough to interest the occasional bass or whatever.
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What size fly do you find works best for the larger bluegill..
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Comment by Jim Barthelman on April 27, 2010 at 10:23pm
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If you are worried about water logging, then a strike indicator you might look into is a "thingamabobber" no joke on the name. They are the new hot thing in trout fishing, and no reason why a panfisherman couldn't use the small size. They stay afloat and I haven't had a single issue with mine. Good product
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