Bluegill Fly Tying Instructions

Make your own bluegill fly by using various colorful fibers. Fly tying allows fly fishermen to produce artificial flies to catch fish. Fly-tying tools and materials such as hooks and threads are necessary to create an artificial fly. As with any patterns, you can make adjustments and use hook sizes and colors as you see fit. Choose colors based on the feeding habits and environment of your local fishing ground.

Things You'll Need

  • Fly-tying vise
  • Saltwater hook size 3
  • Yellow monofilament thread, size .006
  • Teased red wool
  • Fiber wings in colors of yellow, orange and olive
  • Two yellow grizzly hackles
  • Two pheasant feathers
  • Weighted painted eyes
  • Straight-bladed scissors
  • Cement glue
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Instructions

    • 1

      Secure the hook into the fly-tying vise, then attach the monofilament thread to the hook shank.

    • 2

      Add the eyes by tying figure-eight thread wraps at the hook shank's three-quarter mark. Make a loop behind the eyes and put in small sections of red wool into the loop. Make a bushy red hackle by spinning the loop three times.

    • 3

      Bring your thread back to the front of the hook shank. Take long pieces of the yellow wing fibers and tie to the bottom of the head.

    • 4

      Take pieces of orange fibers and tie as wings on top of the yellow fibers. Move the thread over on the top side of the fly head and tie in pieces of yellow wings along with olive-colored wing pieces on top.

    • 5

      Take the yellow grizzly hackles and pheasant feathers, then strip all ends with the scissors. Tie the two yellow grizzly hackles atop the olive wings, then tie the two pheasant feathers under the orange wings at the bottom.

    • 6

      Make a large fly head with thread loops, then finish by glue-cementing the thread.