if you tie flies ,or want to tie flies ,or have flies that you catch fish on lets see them.
post those recipes and techniques.

yes nyes this will ne a great page

Caterpillar

a reverse bluegill bully.

king dragon nymph,great for big chinks.

scud

i thought i would get this started this is just s few of my favorites,i only have about fifty more.
how long do you try a new fly,i will keep them for about a year . if after that time they do not produce i will move on.

to the mighty gill,a real fish

Mike this is my tying desk,i spend a lot of thime here,when i'm not in the lake.

shinner

SPOOKY SHAD

I am not a great tyer, but it sure is fun.

Mike Greene

Add me also to the fly tying group

that is some good looking work howard.


gators make good boots

Thank you shooter you can see that i love marabou. Always looking for suggestions for new projects

Hay I would like to join up with this group, I am a novice fly tyer and love fishing and tying for Bluegill. I would like to show you one of my favorite flies that I learned to tie. I have not had a chance to fish it yet but I think it will work when the time id right. What do you think.

Welcome to the group Jeff. You will enjoy the fun and info provided here. There are some great tiers here, all who have some good ideas. See you are from southern California. Where do you fish in that area? Send photos.

Joseph that is a great looking fly, maybe this person just super glued a dragon fly to a hook.

welcome jeff ,that is a good lookin bug,does it bite.


gators stink

thanks, no it does not bite, bt it will get bit.....

Just huck it out and hope for the best, really I was very suprized it was very easy to cast and held together very well.

Some stuff I have been using with great sucess. There easy to make I use a #8 hook 8lbs line and some glass beads to space the spinner

great site! i jsut joined today.
i'm an avid tier, and have recently fell in love with warm water flyrodding. I had GREAT luck here in MN with a nymph i believe is called a Blue Antheron. Its essentially a Hares Ear Nymph with a bright blue wing casing. couldn't pull em in fast enough.
I look forward to seeing some new patterns and posting some myself!

welcome dana lets see some of those flies.

Just when you think you've gotten involved all the groups you can on the BBG website I see another one I'd love to be a part of. Will post some of my better ties when I return home from Lake Erie. Sincerely, Bob

Larry Dahlberg is the man! I just got Hunt For Big Fish DVD last month...INCREDIABLE!!
On the fly tying note, Here are foam hoppers that I have been tying lately. Jay "Fishy" Fullum is the creator. They are extremely effective for gills and are easy to tie! Here is the site I found the instructions at http://hipwader.com/2003/fishys-hopper-pattern

I tied these bad dogs for Mr. Sikkila.

A great source for fly patterns and step by step instuctions is at www.flyanglersonline.com. The have a large archives of flies and articals on warmwater fly fishin.

Hi Artie here. Fly rodder in south eastern Okla.. Fish streams and lakes. Look forward to seeing flies that work in your areas. This is such a cool web site. I have had GILL FEVER as long as I have fished.

Hey gang! It's been a while but I'm getting back into the swing o' things here! I'll be posting up some stellar bluegill jigs I've been working on soon! But in the meantime you can check them out on my site (http://lonestarcustomlures.com) and on my blog (http://awmiller.wordpress.com).

i need a damsel fly imitation help if you can

Pistol petes are great, I tie and sell hundreds a year, we use them for trout over here but I have used them on the creeks and ponds here at home and have caught a lot of nice gills and ball on them, I tye them as big as a #4 and as small as a #14, we tie them as woolybuggers and also just as a standard pistol pete design, I also tie some heavy ones with coneheads and squirrel strips, call them a pistol buster :)

Hello, everyone! I've been tying/using a brown-hackled peacock variant lately. I put on a red bucktail... tail, and chop it off at the same distance as the hook gap. Typically, on a #10, the tail is around 3/16" and only has a dozen or so hairs in it. Doesn't need a bunch, just enough to get the fish's attention. Oh! And I use black hackles, not brown (I ran out of brown hackle feathers!), but they both work, of course. I've caught some really big bream with them (that's sunfish - bluegills, long-ears, etc. - for you languagely-challenged northerners). ;-D

1/100th BG jigs. VMC #8 hook. Spun hackle tail/neck, peacock herl body.

I haven't looked back through the other examples, but LedHed has shared the peacock herl 1/100th oz and it has everything I like in a jig. Thank you for sharing LedfHed. Illinoisgiller aka ole giller

These jigs are mostly 1/32nd with #8 VMC hooks down to 1/100th with a #12 VMC hook. The majority of these patterns catch 2+lb. Bluegill. This batch was sent to Bruce.

Hey Led Head...those are fabulous looking jigflies and I am going to try some of those patterns in my home waters. Great job!!

nice jigs LedHed,a real nice job of tyeing .



gators eat my fish

Check out this page, really great work.

hey if you like realistic flies check this site out www.grahamowengallery.com

I had an idea to make some light weight spoons that I could use fly fishing. I decided to use acrylic fingernails and epoxied hooks to them, shaped the nail and decorated them to my liking. Haven't had time to try them out other than in the kitchen sink where they seem to flutter pretty well. Can't wait to see if I can fool a panfish into hitting one.

WHAT AN IDEA. HEADING TO THE DOLLAR STORE FOR SOME NAILS. THANKS FOR THE INFO.

I have been at the bench lately playing with a number of things, but mostly using white Gorilla Glue to make foam flies. I have made several ant variations as well as crabs, frogs, mouse and the like that are of the size to use for bass. It is a lot of fun trying to see what you can get the glue to do while it expands and cures.

I am attaching a few pictures to show what I have been up to.

John, I havent worked with the stuff yet. Is the whole body made out of the glue?

John, Do these gorilla glue flies float?? Very innovative and great looking flies!!!!!!

Not so innovative, I saw how to use the Gorilla Glue on YouTube. However, the crabs, frogs and mouse are my experiments.

The entire body is made of the White Quick Dry Gorilla Glue. The glue is activated by a drop of water and cures as a foam.

The foam floats great. It is a bit of a problem trying to learn when to try to apply the foam to a hook and how to keep moving it to make it stay where you want it.

The Frog and Crab bodies are made by mixing a dime size amount of glue on some wax paper then laying the hook in the glue until it foams up and hardens. The wax paper will peal off, and a small amount of glue can be spread on the bottom if you want a rounder bottom or left as is for a flat bottom body.

The video on Youtube really does explain the basics well. My favorite is the ant bodies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRp7I1Ll5Rs

I am glad to answer any questions.

John

Thanks John, Now the Stongest Glue on the Planet has another purpose. Gillin