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re: Am I bonkers for considering throwing small crickets with a fly rod?
Posted on 7/9/26 at 1:17 pm to bird35
Posted on 7/9/26 at 1:17 pm to bird35
Mainly floaters, that’s where the most fun is. Although I would often tie on a trailer (an old popping bug that the floating part had come off of). Just let it hang about 12-14 inches below the top water bug.
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Posted on 7/9/26 at 1:18 pm to Barneyrb
quote:those are the old accardo popping bug flies, which were off market for a long time. a better bream fly has never been made
Bluegill Flies
Posted on 7/9/26 at 1:27 pm to bird35
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Do you guys use bugs that sink or float?
I just tie on a small hook and put the cricket on that. It floats for a while and if nothing hits it, will eventually sink. I've gotten strikes both ways, but I like it best when they strike it on top for the visual.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 8:45 am to SpotCheckBilly
My great uncle taught me to fly fish, when I was in middle school. To start we didn’t use flies. He would tie a small swivel with a spinner to the end of the leader and put a long shank bream hook on the swivel. Then we baited the hook with half a night crawler. We’d usually fill a stringer with bass and bream.
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:32 am to Coach Yo
“small swivel with a spinner”
That was a Hildebrandt spinner.
I did a lot of fly fishing with popping bugs for bream in high school (60’s).
If bream wouldn’t hit on top,I learned to use a Hildebrandt spinner with a black gnat,fished subsurface like trout fishermen used streamers.Would often catch a lot of bream that way.
They worked good on Rainbow trout with a spinning rod on White River when I lived in Arkansas.
We built a pond and stocked it a couple years ago ,have some really nice bream now,I dug out my fly rod I haven’t used in 40 years and getting back into flyfishing for bream,
Can’t find any Hildebrandt inline spinners anywhere,luckily I found a few from my trout fishing days.
Hildebrandt made the Snagless Sally which was pretty popular for bass many years ago.They are still being sold plus spinner baits.Just no inline spinners that you can add you’re own lure.
The inline spinners came in all sizes from very small to pretty large.I knew an old guy many years ago that bass fished a lot,he used a large inline spinner with a yellow banana head hair jig with a pork frog.It would be about 6 inches long altogether,he caught a lot of bass.
That was a Hildebrandt spinner.
I did a lot of fly fishing with popping bugs for bream in high school (60’s).
If bream wouldn’t hit on top,I learned to use a Hildebrandt spinner with a black gnat,fished subsurface like trout fishermen used streamers.Would often catch a lot of bream that way.
They worked good on Rainbow trout with a spinning rod on White River when I lived in Arkansas.
We built a pond and stocked it a couple years ago ,have some really nice bream now,I dug out my fly rod I haven’t used in 40 years and getting back into flyfishing for bream,
Can’t find any Hildebrandt inline spinners anywhere,luckily I found a few from my trout fishing days.
Hildebrandt made the Snagless Sally which was pretty popular for bass many years ago.They are still being sold plus spinner baits.Just no inline spinners that you can add you’re own lure.
The inline spinners came in all sizes from very small to pretty large.I knew an old guy many years ago that bass fished a lot,he used a large inline spinner with a yellow banana head hair jig with a pork frog.It would be about 6 inches long altogether,he caught a lot of bass.
This post was edited on 7/10/26 at 11:39 am
Posted on 7/10/26 at 12:30 pm to weagle1999
Depends what you are fishing for and rod size.
Here in Colorado I catch big trout with grasshopper flies all the time. Cast them right by the riverbank and you can have non-stop action. Not sure how live would work, but why not?
Love it.
ETA: tie a nymph fly off of the hook for a hopper-dropper rig once you have flies.
Here in Colorado I catch big trout with grasshopper flies all the time. Cast them right by the riverbank and you can have non-stop action. Not sure how live would work, but why not?
Love it.
ETA: tie a nymph fly off of the hook for a hopper-dropper rig once you have flies.
This post was edited on 7/10/26 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 7/10/26 at 12:39 pm to SpotCheckBilly
quote:
like it best when they strike it on top for the visual
No better experience when the water is clear and you see the the whole thing from identification through the take.
Posted on 7/12/26 at 3:06 pm to dat yat
quote:
Fly fishing with just a live cricket will lose a lot of crickets on the backcast.
This is exactly what happened today
Well, it was worth a shot.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 12:32 pm to weagle1999
I mainly did that as a lost resort when there we no flies available, but could find crickets.
Like others have said, A few small panfish poppers is all you really need in bluegill waters. Add a few wet flies to use on their own or as droppers and you can have some fun flyfishing for them. You can pick them up at almost any tackle store.
Like others have said, A few small panfish poppers is all you really need in bluegill waters. Add a few wet flies to use on their own or as droppers and you can have some fun flyfishing for them. You can pick them up at almost any tackle store.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 2:23 pm to weagle1999
I don't see why it wouldn't work with a gentle cast. Hell, I was crushing perch with my fly rod and little hot dog pieces as bait a few weeks back.
Posted on 7/13/26 at 4:47 pm to weagle1999
Nope that’s what we used instead of cane poles. 7-8 wt rods small thin corks, no.10 hook, small split shot. Roll cast or just swing cast, slayed the bream, chinquapin. Jigs under a cork also worked for google eye and sacalait
Posted on 7/13/26 at 7:00 pm to bird35
quote:
Do you guys use bugs that sink or float?
I used to use a popper that i would tie a sinking spider with a 18" leader to the popper hook. It was deadly
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