Cricket Pattern

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

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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.

Well....not to be contrary but I have found it to be quite the oposite,
that's just my experience. 9 times out of 10(LOL) I catch fish with my
flyrod and flys when "Bubba Baitbucket" is complaining the fish aren't
biting. {:O)
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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.

wrote:

Well....not to be contrary but I have found it to be quite the oposite,
that's just my experience. 9 times out of 10(LOL) I catch fish with my
flyrod and flys when "Bubba Baitbucket" is complaining the fish aren't
biting. {:O)


IMO, a GOOD bait fisherman will out fish people using other types of
gear most of the time. However, at least in the States, there aren't
very many GOOD bait fishermen.

Willi

Read what's below...would be curious what other people think. Thanks! MIKE
I WROTE: Well....not to be contrary but I have found it to be quite the
oposite,
that's just my experience. 9 times out of 10(LOL) I catch fish with my
flyrod and flys when "Bubba Baitbucket" is complaining the fish aren't
biting. {:O) MIKE

Someone Else Wrote:
IMO, a GOOD bait fisherman will out fish people using other types of
gear most of the time. However, at least in the States, there aren't
very many GOOD bait fishermen.

wrote:

Read what's below...would be curious what other people think. Thanks! MIKE
I WROTE: Well....not to be contrary but I have found it to be quite the
oposite,
that's just my experience. 9 times out of 10(LOL) I catch fish with my
flyrod and flys when "Bubba Baitbucket" is complaining the fish aren't
biting. {:O) MIKE

Someone Else Wrote:
IMO, a GOOD bait fisherman will out fish people using other types of
gear most of the time. However, at least in the States, there aren't
very many GOOD bait fishermen.


IMO A good fisherman can catch more fish with live bait than he will
with any artificial. Not as much fun though and I think the mortality is
greater using live bait.

#6 hook on a fly rod and a live cricket. Most the time the gills are right
on the bank anyway. I take my kids fishing and it works great.
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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