Bluegill Fishing with Flies

Start off with this little exercise if you would. Close your eyes and imagine a pond with willows overhanging the water. Trees have grown old and fallen in. One end has cattails and shallows. Dark, shadowy reaches beneath old growth stretch back away from the main body of the pond. Now, imagine approaching this pond early in the morning with a popper or dry fly tied onto your leader. What kind of bluegill fishing might be conjured to mind? Now put yourself out on that pond later in the day, sitting in a float tube with a sinking line and a nymph or wet fly pattern on the business end. Again, conjure up some great bluegill fishing. A six weight rod would be way too much for the popper/dry fly fishing. More like a three weight. The sinking line fishing might be another story, might need to go four or five, opinions vary, whatever works best for the angler doing the fishing. We invite you to make your way to the nearest pond in your area. Or perhaps a creek that flows through the neighborhood. There is so much quality angling that lurks near the average angler's home that they might be driving near to, or over, on the way to work every day. Here in Collin County TX there are innumerable creeks draining the area and finally making their way to the local reservoirs. I have been privileged to have fished a number of these creeks. A bluegill or a yearling black bass on a three weight is quite the thrill. All the while cars roar overhead down North Central Expressway. Let us know about your bluegill flyfishing adventures. We'd love to hear them. Send your stories to rrhyne56atComcast.net (replace "at" with @ this decreases my spam susceptibility) Robin