How Do You Catch Bluegills With A Dry Fly?
• Be on the water ready to cast for the first hour after sunrise or the last hour before sunset. • Tie on a 4X leader and about 18″ tippet. Don’t use fluorocarbon tippet it sinks and costs $12.00 a spool. The leader can be 7 1/2 or 9 feet. • Tie on a size 16 black gnat dry fly. • Cast right to any small school of bluegill you might see. Do not put your fly line or your leader down over them, though. They will spook. Place your fly where they can see it. • Let the ripples fade. Be ready for an immediate strike! Meanwhile, lower your rod tip to the surface and slowly bring in slack. Twitch the fly gently by light, short retrieves. This can bring a strike. Keep at it. Cast to structure if no fish are in sight–along the front of cattails, by woody structures, rocks. Look for rises and cast nearby.
