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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



I would have to say that live bait will out fish a fly or a lure 10 to 1. If
you were catching gills on a pattern that resembled a cricket, then you
found the right pattern.

About the only thing that you could do would be to spend hours tying up some
realistic type cricket fly, and then soaking it in cricket juice...

Never mind. If you're gonna go that far, why fly fish. Use the best pattern
you have and have fun.