Bluegill Flies?

[Envenomation09]

What flies are the best at catching bluegill? I tie my own so I have been trying my own homemade flies with some success. Like Size 12 Woolly Buggers.
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[flygoddess]

That's kinda big...LOL Just kidding. I was at Pelican and caught a bunch of Blues. I was using a #12 nymph. Black Marabou. With a red bead they went crazy! Also, Softhackle Nymphs.
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[EvilTyeDyeTwin]

The Psychedelic Prince Nymph in size 14........a true panfish KILLER!


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[flygoddess]

True, but hard to find[] Purple rules!
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[sinergy]

Hares ear
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[flygoddess]

YES! Small Zug Bugs, Bead Head Prince. But Black is awesome

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[STEVEF39]

I like that one may have to try and tie some of those up!
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[TylerKunz]

I was fishing the pond near my house the other day and i couldn't keep the stupid things off a olive hares ear and copper johns...
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[Kim-n-Kota]

Ditto, hares ears!

On Mantua I've caught them on a variety of streamers - purple, chartreuse, clausser minnows with orange bellies. Surprisingly even the littler guys will hit a size 8-10. Hard.

In the summer I like to fish the shallows of the community ponds with a PMD or cahill. Find a school of them and its a strike every cast. Great fun.
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[gstott]

I like to fish a nice buoyant attractor like at Turk's Tarantula with a beadhead dropper under it. Most nymph patterns will work, but a really fuzzily tied hare's ear or caddis emerger is hard to beat. I made up a pattern in high school just for gills, I simply named it "Harry". It was sort of like a hare's ear, but tied more "loosely".
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