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What is your go to fly for bream and bluegill? I usually just tie on a small popper. What a good on line source for flys?
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Blue gill are so much fun! Try wooly buggers and crystal buggers, little nymphs, bead head or plain. You can also tie a " dropper" under your popping bug. Either from the hook or leave an 8 inch or so tag end when you tie on your popper, tie on a small nymph. When the bg are hitting hard, you can get a two for one.
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What is your go to fly for bream and bluegill? I usually just tie on a small popper. What a good on line source for flys? Tyler, my “go to flY” is a pheasant feather fly called locally a Brimanator. I don’t think they are commercially available or have not seen them, but they are easy to tie.    If you want a BG on every cast, fish around your feeder with Pellet flies or "Stubby Steves".   Stubby Steve: https://www.stubbysteve.com/
N.E. Texas 2 acre and 1/4 acre ponds
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Bead head black nymphs for sub-surface. Foam spider with rubber legs for surface, black body & white legs so easy to see.
7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160
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I enjoy watching a top water strike, so I'm partial to poppers. And since Spring appears to have sprung here, the fish in my pond are all over 'em!
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Gareth, I am with u. I buy and use the poppers that come in multi group packaging that I buy at Walmart or Target. They are cheap and kinda of mickey mouse fly's but the brim love them on Caddo Lake
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I like the bumble bee popping bug myself. So far caught my biggest BG on it! It was 11 inches long.
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Never tried the homemade pellet flies, but can vouch for the Stubby Steves. They're also great if you've got channel cats eating the pellets!
Away from the feeder, I like a slow-sinking hare's ear nymph, or a renegade on the surface.
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I've never seen the day that a black midge wouldn't work.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
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