Who does it and what patterns do you use?

Went out to a local creek Sat morning and had fun with some green sunfish. They were going after dry's sitting on top of the water. Tried an olive wooly bugger for a while, but got nothing on that.

If you don't mind me asking what dry patterns did you catch them on? Don't worry if it's top secret. I don't mean to pry into your flybox. I used to be of the thought that almost any fly would work for gills, then the gills educated me.

Maybe try some foam bugs as well.

What are your five favorite bluegill flies and what size?

Bead headed prince nymph and Green/Black/White Panfish Popper usually work best for me, don't really have a top 5. All sz 10-14, mainly 12. Another good one is the clauser minnow, red/white or just white/gray seems to work particularly well.

any trout fly will work

nymph patterns even wooly worms/wooly buggers tied small (if they're feeding or spawning/defending a nest)

any, ANY, dry fly size 12 or smaller will work (if they're feeding)

tiny poppers work well if they are on the nest

try these
wet fly: size 16 wooly bugger or black gnat to size 14 fished slow with occasion twitch...guaranteed
nymph: prince or elk hair caddis size 14 or smaller
dry fly: size 14 or smaller adams or humpy


BUT IF YOU WANT A MEAT HAUL
cap spiders (late great mike verduin)

Any nymph will work, but BH PRINCE is my personal favorite.

Put rubber legs on a nymph and they are even better. For example, a squirrel tail nymph with legs is just deadly on BG. Same for Hare's ear and pheasant tail...add legs and its magic.

Another killer rig is a small popper with a nymph trailer...about 18 inches behind the popper. Really works well. Many times you get a double. I love to fly fish for BG. Doesn't get much better than that.

I do and I like to use cork popping bugs best of all. Especially good is the Bumblebee pattern. Nothing like a topwater hit.

One drawback is that you occassionally have to suffer thru one of those green funny looking fish...I think they call them largemouth bass.

But just throw them aside and keep fishing.

small Betts or Cajun poppers for the win

Ive probably left a hundred dollars worth of them up in willow trees

Ive had real good luck with black gnats and woolies on the wet flies, saw some green woolies at Academy I been meaning to try

+1

Anything "buggy" will do the trick

poppers are great & these are some of the best poppers money can buy, very well made to last, I'm still using some I bought 3 years ago.
http://www.booglebug.com/

I second that too, I own the white/black popper bass bug mentioned. Recommend it!

I tried it yesterday and they were dhitting a yellow streamer pretty good. Dont know what the pattern called.

Could it be a clauser minnow? I use those a lot and they work great.