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I was fishing this past weekend for bluegill. My wife was useing her
Ultralight set up and live brown crickets. She was catching them with
almost everycast. Me...fishing a few feet from her with my flyrod was
catching just a few. I tried every pattern I had that resembled a cricket
or something similiar. The fish would always go to the live cricket. I
tried different presentation techniques. Different methods of
retrievals....etc..etc.... To no avail. Is there pattern for a brown
cricket that anyone has had success with??? Thanks Mike

Several other thoughts:

(1) Try attaching a second fly, either on a dropper or by tying tippet to
the bend of the hook of the first fly. The gang effect often seems to
inspire strikes when a single fly wouldn't.

(2) Try a fluorocarbon tippet instead of mono. I'm not entirely sure this
improves the strike rate (it certainly doesn't dramatically), but I haven't
tried it that often.

(3) Try varying your retrieve instead of the fly. (I'm sure you've already
thought of that.)

Lastly, I always crimp down the barbs of my hooks when fishing for sunfish.
Their jaws are much more delicate than trout mouths. I've done some serious
damage trying to free even tiny fly hooks. Not that bluegills are endangered
or anything, but it's a bit depressing to catch fish with crippled parts.