It is MY BIG BLUE GILL BIRTHDAY!!!!!

[Greg McWilliams]

Four years ago today BROTHER BRUCE welcomed me to this site!!!!! Been a LEARNING EXPERIENCE!!! About Bluegill and the different ways to catch them!!!!! The different SPECIES, and the different names for them all around the COUNTRY!!!!!!!! I have learned to use a COMPUTER, a DIGITAL CAMERA, and how to POST THEM!!!!!!

I have met a lot of GREAT FOLK that share in my ADDICTION to catching them!!!!!!! I hope one day to meet many of them!!!!!!!

I am a FLY-ROD fisherman only!!!!!!! Also TYING FLIES, and over the last four year have met here some GREAT TIERS that have introduced me some GREAT GILL GETTERS!!!!! 

So for my BIRTHDAY I have assembled a collection of some of my GO TO FLIES!!!!!! I would like to give them to SOMEONE here on BBG!!!!!!!! FOR A CHANCE TO WIN, all you have to DO is wish me HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and maybe SHARE what YOU HAVE LEARNED HERE ON THE BEST SITE ON THE WEB!!!!

Here are BIG BLUEGILL BAKERS DOZEN!!!!!!

Starting at the Top LEFT is Jen's NAYBEE, WINE ZULU ( my hybrid of the PURPLE ZULU) and Her PURPLE ZULU, and Bryan W.s GREASY MONKEY!!!!!!

Middle row  Dave Kensingers LIGHTNING BUG, COPPER FLASH,  Shooters DRAGON FLY NYMPH and SINKING CRICKET in HONOR OF THE BOOGIEMAN ( pink cricket with BETTY GRABLE LEGS)!!!!!

Bottom row is Kelly Gallop's SPARKBUG ( my favorite crappie fly),  Jay Fares HOPPER-HEX, EGG-SUCKING LEACH,  BLACK WIDOW, and the BLUEGILL CANDY!!!!!!

ONE NOT PICTURED is in the VICE and will take a bit longer to finish one top water favorite of mine will remain a mystery til drawing day!!!!! P. S. it is not the FLIP FLOPPER!!!!!!!!

DRAWING DAY WILL BE NEXT MONDAY, OCTOBER THE FIRST!!!!!!!

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

[DAVID L EITUTIS]

GO AHEAD MASTER LEO I dare ya to tell your wife stuff like that !!!!!!!!!!!!! You'll be fixing your own supper pretty soon!

[Leo Nguyen]

Booby Fly?! OOOOooooo mama! I'm taking that name. My wife's going to love this. I'll make it in pink, red velvet, and black sheer..her choices. LOL

[Greg McWilliams]

It has been a GREAT BIRTHDAY!!!!!!! and in a COUPLE more days MY GRANDTWINS are turning 2!!!!!! :-)

Mike, Hope I never stop learning!!!!!!

LEO, that is a top water called the BOOBY FLY!!!!!!!! One of the first few PHOTOS I put up!!!!

Here is the STEP X STEP of the fly!!!!!!! http://bigbluegill.com/photo/albums/booby-fly-1

[Leo Nguyen]

Greghopper, what the heck do you call this greenish popped eyes fly of yours?

[dick tabbert]

Greghopper I don't know what that green buggy eyed thing is but the palmering job is great that will be my next challenge when I get some feathers.

[Leo Nguyen]

Greg, now that's a fly that I can see as a massive magnet for the stocked trouts (stocker) in this neck of the woods. It's just like the Berkeley trout dough. You nailed it!

[Greg McWilliams]

The FINAL FLY for the B-DAY GIVE AWAY!!!!!!! One from the PAST!!!!!!

[Suzanne Lazar]

Happy BBG Birthday-!

Hey, I was going to write something anyway- but those are some nice looking flies, what an incentive!

I was going to say, glad to hear I'm not the only one here kind of new to computer stuff! It's a gas...wish I hadn't kept away from computers as long as I did. Although...it's still not as much fun as fishing! :-)

[Lord of the Fly , Rods]

Happy Birthday Greg, Has it been four years, as a gift I  have arranged with the bluegill Gods to provide you with a big fish you will be proud of on your next fishing trip.  Fish On     LOFR

[Greg McWilliams]

Dick, all these are WEIGHTED, about like you weighted the RUBBER LEGGED DRAGON!!!!!!!! There is one more that will be a TOP WATER!!!!!!

Jen, Those flies were added to my GO TO BOX because they are PRODUCTIVE!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!!!