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Saturday evening headed out directly after work to my favorite bluegill hole, armed with various colors of the Greasy Monkey fly. Since I'd been catching fish of late on my little brown bug, I decided to tie on a brown Greasy Monkey with a copper stripe down the side.  This was my prize.

Fished the brown one for probably another 45 minutes or so and not another nibble. As I was kinda just lookin around at my surroundings I noticed this: (See first picture)

An "old fisherman" aka Crane sitting on top of the hill on a pile of rocks about a 1/4 mile from the lake...Never a good sign!
However I put on a purple Greasy Monkey and began casting and casting, took a sandwich break and just about sundown got a great hit:

For the next hour, nearly every cast was catching fish, even this beautiful warmouth.

And this one:

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Comment by Greg McWilliams on July 17, 2012 at 7:30pm

No Dick, I am using BEAD CHAINED EYES!!!!!!!! Just like in BRYAN'S Video!!!!! 

Comment by dick tabbert on July 17, 2012 at 7:01pm

are using a jig head

Comment by dick tabbert on July 17, 2012 at 6:59pm

I'll try both of them.

Comment by dick tabbert on July 17, 2012 at 6:56pm

Thanks Greg

Comment by Greg McWilliams on July 17, 2012 at 6:29pm

Dick, this is the one I tied instead of hackle tip I just use the hackle fibers!!!!!! I prefer the micro chanille,  and I use a braid for the stripe and gives it just a little FLASH!!!!!

Comment by Greg McWilliams on July 17, 2012 at 6:07pm
Comment by Greg McWilliams on July 17, 2012 at 6:06pm

Dick, This is the one BRYAN, did and his instuctions!!!!!!

Comment by dick tabbert on July 17, 2012 at 5:39pm

Greg do you have a close up cleare picture of the greasy monkey, if so can you send it to me.

Comment by Greg McWilliams on July 17, 2012 at 3:59pm

Fish MAGNET would work!!!!!! Especially with that OLD FISHERMAN sitting on that ROCK CORNERPOST!!!!!!

Comment by Leo Nguyen on July 16, 2012 at 6:19pm

Grease monkey? We should call it Fish Magnet.

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