wrote...
Is there pattern for a brown
cricket that anyone has had success with??? Thanks Mike


Terry and Roxanne Wilson wrote a book a few years ago on fly fishing for
bluegill and the pattern he came up with is called Bully's Bluegill Spider. It
does not look anything like a cricket, but is intended to sink the way a
cricket does. It is weighted with most of the weight on the rear of the hook
and a chenille body and some round rubber legs stacked on the front of the body
so that the fly sinks with the butt sinking first. I find that it is sometimes
very effective for bluegills if you fish it where you should. I find it works
best around drop-offs. terry ties them in several colors, but the last time I
watched him tying at a conclave he was tying them in a hot pink color. At that
time that color had beek just slaying them for some unknown reason. I don't
pretend to understand some of this **** sometimes. I tie them most often with
variegated (sp) chenille. I tie them on size 10 dry fly hooks and they are easy
to tie once you get used to the strange way of weighting the hook and it still
feels a little odd trying to stack those round ruber legs.

Big Dale