nope was not a clouser minnow. kinda looked like one only i think it used feathers instead of hair and was alot smaller and didnt have the barbell eyes.

Hmm, never saw one like that before, you should post some pics!

Bead head hare's ear nymph, and a very small white popper with black and white marabou work best for me.

I have had really good luck lately on a beadhead chartreuse hares ear. I tie e'm myself though

bead head hare's ear soft hackle!

Would a bead head copper john work well around here?

1/3 of the flies in my bluegilll box are different variations of Jack Gartside's Gurgler which we call a yellow foam spider. All are ted on size 10 Mustad 3366 hooks. I will always start with a yellow one and they will have to prove to me that they do not want that color that day before I move to a chartreuse or a purple...or any other color. That is the only hook I use because they are cheap and I otherwise could not afford to have given away about 12 thousand of them thru the years.

Another 1/3 of the box are different colors of Mike Verduin's Cap Spider. I tie it in all colrs, but count on the olive, chartreuse, and black ones being the ones that will work.

The other 1/3 of the box is just a combination of various trout nymphs and flies that a weird mood hit me and I just felt like tying. There seems to be something magic going on with peacock hurl for a body material and I tie a lot of soft hackle flies cause I just plain like to tie them and they catch a bunch of bluegill for me.

As always,

Have fun with this stuff.

Big Dale

Today I had good success with some orange belly stimulators and a homemade prince style bead head.

I wonder about throwing a small popper with a Cap Spider as a dropper about 18" below...might be a BG killer...LOL.

I catch a lot of bluegill on copper johns, mostly only big ones

Caught some today on a small pond near my house, in a short amount of time using a white popper/copper john, and all where caught on the #12 Copper John as a dropper.

I fish at all lbj grasslands and have been having good luck on my deer hair bass bugs i learn from billy munn. The bass are up on banks in warm water .

The little guys in the creek this afternoon really went after a little black midge with red tail, #14 I think.

If you like hand size perch . Clear lake is good place with elk haired caddis. # 12

I caught my first bluegill on a fly yesterday! But not on a fly rod, though. lol. i tied on a fly that i bought years ago, and dipped it in the water with my rod. Almost instantly it got picked up by a 7-8 inch bluegill. i was a bumble bee pattern.