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Foam Giller
Extended body top water, size 8.
Changed it up with a slightly longer, tapered tail and pheasant hackle for legs.
It has a bug-crustacean combo look, I think. Gonna try and get out and use it tomorrow.
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Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on August 24, 2014 at 5:42pm
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I has worked, Vince. So far, so good.
Nice to see you around here!
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Comment by Vince Fusco on August 24, 2014 at 3:48pm
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Deadly looking bug, David!
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Under overhanging shrubbery would be ideal.
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on August 24, 2014 at 12:51pm
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Good deal.....I would have liked to throw it in the moving water I was fishing earlier today.......caught some big gills that were ambushing under large patches of blooming honeysuckle plants hanging over the bank.....
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Tried the Giller today and had three fish hooked up. Several other fish swung and missed.
I'm calling it a success!
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Jim,
This was patterned after a bug I saw at FTF. It's called the Gill-er. Here's a link:
http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?app=members&module=messa...
He uses lots of rubber leg material and mono eyes. I changed that. I don't see the value in adding all his rubber in the tail, and I wanted something instead that used feather. The eyes too are more to catch anglers, so I omitted them. My next step for this one is to tie large feather wings, to emulate a kind of hopper look.
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Comment by jim cosgrove on August 24, 2014 at 7:45am
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been working on some thing similar david.
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PS Tooty- I don't dream this up. It's modified from something else. I just changed a few things to get here.
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Thanks Jim
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Comment by Jim Gronaw on August 23, 2014 at 8:52pm
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If I were a bluegill....I'd eat it!
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