Using the Nymph to Fish Deep for Bluegill

I am still in the process of trying to find 62 degree water at the lake. I thought today I would get on the water at daylight and see if the action was any better than it has been the last couple of weeks. Well, daylight was not much better than last week, because the water temps are still too cold for any shallow activity. I spent the first hour and half going through my fly box trying to select a pattern that would produce a hit. I finally landed my first fish at eight and the slow morning continued.

This was a fat butter ball female in great shape loaded with eggs. This fish took the Stonefly at a depth of 8 ft. Sorry no counter here.

The Stone Fly was the fly for the morning. Nothing else produced, I really like this fly because of the Tungsten Beadhead which has a great sink rate. I landed everything in depths of 8 ft. or better.

This beautiful bull gill was landed in a deep cut bank area above 10 ft. deep; the Stonefly was the winner--I am still hoping to land something tomorrow on top---stay tuned guys!!!

This was the end result today for about 4 hours of fishing. These were the keepers after tossing back some smaller bluegills and a few small bass---I am 96 away from that 100 mark