first catch on the fly rod

Congrads on your first catch.....It will get better it won't be long before you
are looking around and saying looks like a spinner fall or they were hitting on
tan caddis last night...We have millions of blue gill around here i could catch
them all day long if i wanted to.......I am not trying to step on anyones toes
here but i find that in Ct. i use flies that have been beat to death by trout
on blue gill and bass and crappie...I have a Plueger (sp) 5wt at my camp here
last year one night i caught two largemouth bass in excess of 2lbs on a #12
grey fox.....I have used BWO's sulpurs, march browns,caddis almost anything
will work but then i have never heard of stocking bluegills...... Where I have
lived all my life they are plentyful matter of fact downright pesky........Make
a nice cast to where you think a bass will be and bang a friggin bluegill and
another and another well you get the drift.....Don't get yourself into the idea
that spiders are the only thing that will catch bluegill if spiders don't work
try a dry fly try a wet fly try anything you happen to have in your
vest....Best of luck on your flyfishing apprenticeship...Watch out for that
Opie guy he won't admit it but he does know his way around a flyrod..........


Handyman Mike
Standing in a river waving a stick