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Ready for action! The Stayner Ducktail is a good pattern for big, late summer bluegills.
The Stayner Ducktail is a streamer pattern that has been knocking around in my fly boxes for a long time. It has caught more than its share of trout and landlocked salmon for me over the years and like all successful flies it eventually migrated into my warm water boxes. However, this one did not find its way there by accident.
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The Ugly Cricket 2.0 with an antron wing
As I held the fly in my hand, I could see that it was probably an early attempt at some sort of terrestrial pattern, possibly a cricket, by the fly tier who donated the materials. The fly was crudely tied with heavy sewing thread. It had a preformed foam spider body and knotted rubber legs tied in all helter-skelter. The knotted legs are what makes me believe it was meant to imitate a cricket.
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I was recently a guest blogger for The Flymen Fishing Company. I wrote on the subject of setting up an ideal space for your fly tying. If you are not familiar with The Flymen Fishing Company they produce a number fly tying products that you have probably heard of.
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The Creature is a very effective "mop fly" for panfish and other warm water species.
The purist, dry fly anglers turn their noses up to this ugly easy to tie style of fly because it can be nothing more than a piece of your bath mat lashed to a hook shank. But the thing they hate the most about the fly is that it will likely catch more fish than their exquisitely tied Catskill style dry fly!
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The Pepperoni Yuk Bug is a fantastic warm water fly pattern.
It is often said that bluegills and other panfish are not picky and just about any fly will work for them. At times it may seem like that is the case, but panfish will often show a preference for a particular fly. In the last few weeks, this has been that fly.
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