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Date: January 29, 2008 at 15:12:17
From: andymcb, [mail.frmahony.com]
Subject: Bluegill imitation for bass


When I was young, I remember catching some bluegill minnows (1"-2") and then hooking them through the back to use as bait for bass. These seemed to work much better than shiners (but, I was told that it was illegal to use a game fish (bluegill) as bait - ahhh, youth...)

I'm looking to tie some flies that imitate bluegill.

I was thinking a fly like Ray's Fly might work (bluegill are dark with bars at the top (peacock herl?), light in middle (white & olive bucktail?) with a bit of red under their 'chin' (yellow bucktail?)).

Any ideas, or good fly recipes? I'd also appreciate any hints on how to fish them...

thanks,

-andrew


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