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If you love to nail a big bluegill or shellcracker on a fly rod, this is your group.

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Comment by Lee Nagel on November 10, 2009 at 12:43pm
It appears that once again, the Corps of Engineers is going to flood our parks and campgrounds for the winter. They did this last year and ruined our fishing. :(

Go to Google images and search Forsyth Missouri flooding.
Comment by Scott McNeillie on November 10, 2009 at 12:27pm
Just got a real nice lanyard from e-bay for just $11. It is good looking and for $11 I could not drive around getting what I needed to make one close to it. Sure a couple of snaps and a bootlace will work but this one does look nice.
Comment by Charles Singleton on November 6, 2009 at 2:25pm
Finally back from another trip to GShoals. More monster bluegills! :-D check MyPage for a picture of the fly. A little research has provided the real name: Red Tag.
Comment by Steve Crowder on October 19, 2009 at 5:21pm
Sounds like a blast Charles. Glad you enjoyed your time on the water. Post a photo of your fly if you get a chance. Thanks,
Comment by Charles Singleton on October 19, 2009 at 12:02pm
You guys should've been with me for the last couple of weeks! Just got back Friday from Lake LBJ (Granite Shoals, TX), where I was routinely catching 9-10" bluegills/long-ears/red ears, on a daily basis! What a BLAST! Almost every one of them was caught on a black-hackled, red-butted peacock (think brown-hackled peacock, with a red tail of bucktail added). KILLER fly!
Comment by Steve Crowder on October 17, 2009 at 6:45am
Good for you Tobias. I think (for good reasons) we are all obsessed with bluegill fishing. It is good that you can contuinue to fish for bluegill during the cool weather. Like you, I'm going fishing even though the weather cooled down.
Comment by Tobias Jackson Jr. on October 16, 2009 at 7:02pm
man i think im getting obsessed with bluegill fly fishing because i have been fly fishing for bluegill in the winter which the winter is right now in Georgia but ive done very well using a deep small clouser minnow caught 22 bluegill before lunch so yea its still goin strong so yea
Comment by Eric on October 6, 2009 at 7:40pm
klrbaer, something very similar happened to me over the last two sundays. Both days it started about 30 minutes before dark. There were so many boils. It was incredible. We had caught so many fish we started waiting for the largest boils. We were throwing accardo popping bugs and it was just awesome. Round Dinny was the bug.
Comment by Steve Crowder on October 5, 2009 at 5:14pm
Good fishing klbaer. Wish I was having the same sucess as you. Post some pictures of your flies and fish.
Comment by klrbaer on October 5, 2009 at 9:38am
I took my son and dog fishing yesterday afternoon. It was great weather. Nice and cool in the shade and then when the sun hit my back it was almost warm enough to loose my fleece.

I'll have to get pics of the flies I've made recently and post them here. I used the following flies yesterday. Size 12 bead head montana prince, in green, brown and red. Size 8 aberdeen hook, with bead chain eyes, maribou tail and wing, and ice dubbing body. The following combonations worked well. Olive wing and tail, red or brown body. Black wing and tail, red body. Purple wing and tail, red or brown body.
I fished for about 2 hours and had great luck . 64 gills and 17 bass.
 

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