Okeefenokee!!

[superchub]

Ok all you southern part of the state message board lurkers...I'm assisting in taking a group of boy scouts to the swamp in Feb. Canoeing into one of the scout area's. My son has long since finished his Eagle so my responsibility is to teach ecology/conservation (no problem there..that's my background) and since I don't have a kid involved....FISH and show the rest of them how its done http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/smile.gif!!! Probably taking my UL rig and my 7' 4wt Diamondback. What should I bring as far as flys/lures.....please oh wise one's, expound and teach your humble servant!!
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[The Ole Man]

superchub
For the bream and warmouth, weighted flies with rubber legs on them. Bluegill love rubber legs. Tie up some girdle bugs with white or yellow legs. Barred sililegs are even better. Or bar the white/yellow ones with a marks a lot. Makes em look real fishy. Lay the legs over the edge of a paper plate and speckle em up real good with your pen. Put some lead wraps on the hookshank so they will sink . Strip, stop and twitch em. Fish will knock the fire out of em. For your spinning rig nothing tops a Beetle Spin. Take some lrg, med & small ones. I've caught bass, catfish, bream, crappie & carp on them. My wife caught a 9# catfish on one. She drug him so far up in the woods, by the time I got to him, he was so papered with leaves he looked like one of those wood spirits! Ole Man

[FlygURL]

superchub:

My Dad SWEARS by Tony Arcado's Blue Gill Specials - Frog pattern - size 10 for your fly. Personally, I like the orange ones with spots. This year, when the action is very slow, he says he taking a lot of fish with Anytime, Anywhere.

I agree with the Ole Man, beetle spins for the ultra light.

FlygURL

[Drifter]

Chubster,

I too have had good luck in the swamp using the Beetle Spin. My three most productive colors are white, white, and white.

Also, Kent Edmond's Clouser Minnow should be productive. (You'll receive one of these beauties in a few days when the Swap flies are mailed out.) You might want to pick up some Dahlberg Divers from your fav fly shop. These have been deadly for b****in some local beaver ponds I fish. So good in fact, that I began tying these things.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

The Drifter

[Loren]

Super,

I too recommend the beetle spin. I have more confidence with this lure than any other. I've caught bass, trout, catfish, crappie, white bass, and chain pickerrel with them. I usually substitute a tube skirt for the grub and fish very very slowly.

Loren

[Hooker]

Think I'll go buy me some white Beetle Spins.

[Loren]

Forget Hooker, you already catch too many fish.

Loren

[jetguy]

Don't know if u have gone on the trip yet, but that the part of the state I grew up in. are u thinking of Billy's Island in Fargo, GA? If you catch anything be sure to reel in really fast, I can't count how many time the gator at the dock on billy's island has had lunch at the end of my line. I sure do miss the scenery in the swamp. Try to find some lily pads and look for holes at the stem of the leaf, if you do pull the pad up and split open the stem and look for a white worm. Put that on either the flyrod or spinning rig and about anything from a garr to a b****will hit it. good luck...let me knoe how the trip goes!

jetguy

[J Olliff]

Haven't fished in the swamp yet, just hunted there this past season. I hope to get some fishing in over there this year, I think we are going for a new state record pickerel.
Ha-ha. I think I will print this out to get my box together for bream, I saw somw new suggestions on here that sound excellent. I mainly use spiders and poppers, sometimes mosquitos, too.
Anyway, let us know how ya'll do.

[Jeff Jones]

How do you put a skeeter on a hook? Do you use several of them together?
Do you ever get bitten , trying to thread them on ? http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/smile.gif

[J Olliff]

It is very difficult to get a skeeter on a hook. Super glue works pretty good. Tee-hee.
I never thought about using multiple skeeters but it sounds good. (I wish I knew how to make those cool smiley faces).
If a skeeter gets on you, let him get full of blood, nothing like a fat skeeter for bream fishin'!

How do ya'll make those smiley faces???!!!

[J Olliff]

Jeff told me how to make the cool smiley faces, so this is just a test.....
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[flytyfish]

I don't no about a fly rod for those fish except bream but if you can get your hands on a spinner called a SHYSTER you won't need anything else but carry plenty of them. Ihave been fishing there for about 20 years and have never failed to have sore soulders by the end of my trip .I recomend going when the yellow flies are biting it seems to make the fish bite better.the best color is yellow but white also works pretty good to .carry a piece of aluminum foil to wrap on your spinner when the fish nocks all of the color off it and just keep on fishing it.I always go to Stephen Foster state park and put in then go out in the swamp turn left go way up in the creek till it opens up then you will see the spillway fish all around there but watch out for those gators and be carefull & don't let no shoulders fall in your boat .Best fishing you will evr do

[flytyfish]

I don't no about a fly rod for those fish except bream but if you can get your hands on a spinner called a SHYSTER you won't need anything else but carry plenty of them. Ihave been fishing there for about 20 years and have never failed to have sore soulders by the end of my trip .I recomend going when the yellow flies are biting it seems to make the fish bite better.the best color is yellow but white also works pretty good to .carry a piece of aluminum foil to wrap on your spinner when the fish nocks all of the color off it and just keep on fishing it.I always go to Stephen Foster state park and put in then go out in the swamp turn left go way up in the creek till it opens up then you will see the spillway fish all around there but watch out for those gators and be carefull & don't let no shoulders fall in your boat .Best fishing you will evr do

[flytyfish]

I don't no about a fly rod for those fish except bream but if you can get your hands on a spinner called a SHYSTER you won't need anything else but carry plenty of them. Ihave been fishing there for about 20 years and have never failed to have sore soulders by the end of my trip .I recomend going when the yellow flies are biting it seems to make the fish bite better.the best color is yellow but white also works pretty good to .carry a piece of aluminum foil to wrap on your spinner when the fish nocks all of the color off it and just keep on fishing it.I always go to Stephen Foster state park and put in then go out in the swamp turn left go way up in the creek till it opens up then you will see the spillway fish all around there but watch out for those gators and be carefull & don't let no shoulders fall in your boat .Best fishing you will evr do

[flytyfish]

I don't no about a fly rod for those fish except bream but if you can get your hands on a spinner called a SHYSTER you won't need anything else but carry plenty of them. Ihave been fishing there for about 20 years and have never failed to have sore soulders by the end of my trip .I recomend going when the yellow flies are biting it seems to make the fish bite better.the best color is yellow but white also works pretty good to .carry a piece of aluminum foil to wrap on your spinner when the fish nocks all of the color off it and just keep on fishing it.I always go to Stephen Foster state park and put in then go out in the swamp turn left go way up in the creek till it opens up then you will see the spillway fish all around there but watch out for those gators and be carefull & don't let no shoulders fall in your boat .Best fishing you will evr do

[flytyfish]

I don't no about a fly rod for those fish except bream but if you can get your hands on a spinner called a SHYSTER you won't need anything else but carry plenty of them. Ihave been fishing there for about 20 years and have never failed to have sore soulders by the end of my trip .I recomend going when the yellow flies are biting it seems to make the fish bite better.the best color is yellow but white also works pretty good to .carry a piece of aluminum foil to wrap on your spinner when the fish nocks all of the color off it and just keep on fishing it.I always go to Stephen Foster state park and put in then go out in the swamp turn left go way up in the creek till it opens up then you will see the spillway fish all around there but watch out for those gators and be carefull & don't let no shoulders fall in your boat .Best fishing you will evr do

[superchub]

Thanks, everyone for the recco's!...But now the sad news!! THis was to be the weekend...BUT they had wind advisories up for the lakes and swamp...windchills in the single digit to teens predicted!..Billy's Lake/Mixon's hammock was our destination.the hammock does not provide much windbreak..erring on the side of safety and no lawsuits due to frostbit/drowned scouts! the scoutmaster decided to scrub the trip http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/frown.gif...oh well...my forray into the swamp still waits..again thanks for all the advise..by the by its not the size that makes the mosquitoes hard to get on the hook..its just hard to hold them down that long! they are so big the fish are 'fraid of them!! http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ubbngto/smile.gif...Back to the trout water!
SC