Greg McWilliams's Comments

Sorry you lost your purdy Greg. It did look good to me. Good enough I would have flipped it out there. Had a bad ole big ole bluegill tied it up in a brush pile, I would have gone in after it. 'Cause "Purdy Is As Purdy Does".

Since you know it is hitable, make another like it. Make a backup too! Make a 100! Crickets love company.


BoogiepileitonMan

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Thanks for the input Greg, I think I,ll go find me some yarn at a craft store or maybe walmart. I will give it a go and see what I can come up with. Thanks alot for the suggestion, the wire should help keep em from getting eat up... or I mean tore up too bad

doomaflatchy. Do you have this word copyrighted? Cause I was gonna use it on Mayo.

Boogieman

I rated it 5 stars. Great hat, great smile, great eyes.

Yeah, I'm so used to buyin' 'em by the hundreds though. I saw something you posted in the fly tying group about a sinking cricket problem. I want mine to sink. I have thrown a handful of live ones out just to get the gills stirred up. When I do it on purpose, they always seem to make it to safety. When I accidently knock my cricket cage overboard, I pretty quick start hearing these suck-pop sounds. I wonder what the difference is? The splash of the cage hittin' the water maybe? They seem to know the difference somehow, when they're being set up and when it's manna from Heaven.
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I ain't a fly tyer so I ain't qualified to say. Send me a hundred or so of 'em and I'll see if they can go head to head with the original.

I ain't much of a fly fisherman either. Just rubber legged foam spiders every now and then. I looks pretty good to me. I'll agree the color is a little on the dark side for a cricket but it is a work in progress huh?

Hey, it's 47 degrees outside right now and feels like a walk in freezer. How do all them ice holers stand it? They should all be inside tying up little cricket replicas. Keep me posted, especially when you present it to the experts down under.

If you're talking about the big hybrid striper, I caught that on a homemade hand-tied brown wooly-bugger. I'll try to post a picture of it sometime.

Thank you Greg, I'll look into the Smallmouth rendezvous.

Yeah, Greg...its been a tough winter, and I am very glad I took the early retirement options, which weren't particularly great, but they were good enough for me.

Right now I am writing for 5 different publications and tying lots of jigs, and I have some seminars and shows to do next month along with some springtime instructional fishing classes. So, I'm busy trying to make a living at fishing...may get my guide license in MD and see where that leads. God is good...all the time! I don't have a lot of money, but I have been out of debt for 3 years and I am a very rich man, in many ways.

Thanks for the hollar...bless you Jim

Hello Greg,
Indeed, I have been a member of the Dallas Fly Fishers for about a year now. I'll look for you the next time.
Richard Wayne

i'm doing better with my tieing now... and those sites did help. now i juse gotta wait for the ice to leave

that damsil that you gave is really awesome thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<3

Greg,
The fly is a size 6 brown Wooly Bugger with some gold flashabou tied in with the tail and I use a product called Rumphf opalescent root beer for the body instead of chenille. This pic was taken back in September.

Thanks Greg. They are ice caught. I've been used to catching 15-25 fish lately, so things have slowed a bit.

Hay Greg,
Been working hard all week so I can fish a 3 day weekend. Taking the wife iceshack fishin sat. Going to be a warm weekend. up yo 30 they say. JR

Hi Greg, 15 below this morning in WI. A buddy is stopping over shortly and it out to the ice shack. GO PAC JR

Think he was eating a rodent, and I'm a poor judge of distance, but the zoom worked well on the camera

Our daytime highs are now in the upper 30's while at night we are around 20 F, that's enough to put a 1-2 inch skim of ice on some lakes, but not enough to walk on. I am going down to southern Delaware on Mon thru Wed after Christmas to fish some tidal creeks and millponds for some crappie. They are usually very concentrated this time of year and if we can find them it should be good.

Might be some skim ice on some of those ponds, but all of the tidal creeks and spillways will be open...just not cold enough and the tidal movement makes it tough for ice to form. It's gonna be bobber/jigs/bait fished around wood structure and deeper holes..6 to 8 feet is deep on the Shore and most ponds have a deep hole right at the base of the earthen dams and all species concentrate there in the winter. On the right day, fishing can be fabulous.

If we do any good I'll send you some pics. See ya Jim