I have tied the "Bully Spider" but didn't have any to try. thanks for the
suggestion! MIKE
"Big Dale" wrote in message
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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