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 Post subject: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2016 7:29 pm • # 1 
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Tried my hand at some Guber Bugs, these are all #10's, any critics welcome, these I want to try out on my next trip .

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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 7:38 pm • # 2 
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Looking good!! Just one question do you think the long legs and tails will draw short strikes ? Really like the colors. Let know how they do.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 8:16 pm • # 3 
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pikeonafly wrote:
Looking good!! Just one question do you think the long legs and tails will draw short strikes ? Really like the colors. Let know how they do.


Good question, hence the reason I am not a big fan of rubber legs, as the "bream" tend to rip at the legs.
I think this is more of a fly for bass or bigger mouthed small fish, such as sunnies and crappie.
I must apologise the spelling of the fly is incorrect it should be Goober.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 10:04 pm • # 4 
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Nice looking flys. Sunnies? Is that a Green Sunfish?


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 10:10 pm • # 5 
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I was thinking the same thing about the length of the legs. But should be fun, and once the gills shorten up the legs a bit, that will end the short strikes and result in the the hook ups with the smaller fish.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 10:50 pm • # 6 
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You can always make them shorter but cant make them longer. See how it goes and trim if needed. I think the bass will like all the movement.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 9:43 am • # 7 
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Jim yes I call Green Sunfish "Sunnies" as I thought that is their generic name.
Thanks for the observations concerning the bug and it's legs, testing time on Saturday Lord willing.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 8:15 pm • # 8 
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You inspired me to fish a goober bug today. Caught a few nice yellow perch and the fish below on my 3 wt.

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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 9:20 pm • # 9 
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I am as Green as that Trout with envy. Hurry up Saturday.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 9:40 pm • # 10 
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I googled goober but didn't find anything like these flies.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 9:55 pm • # 11 
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I've heard the term sunnies used by folks from the North East. I always thought they were referring to
blue gills and other species of small sunfish and didn't think green sunfish inhabited the NE; that
was true 40 years ago I just found out; in recent years green sunfish have moved into the North East.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 10:41 pm • # 12 
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when you tug on the line the long legs gather, then fan out; I think that action triggers the strike; the little ones will bite the legs but the big uns will suck in the fly like a bass; you catch a lot of bass on them in the spring. I take the wooly worm and add the tail; no legs; works great-p-


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 11:13 pm • # 13 
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JimRed wrote:
I googled goober but didn't find anything like these flies.



Tying the Goober Bug Fly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbYLrpBQllo On YouTube


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2016 11:21 pm • # 14 
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JimRed wrote:
I've heard the term sunnies used by folks from the North East. I always thought they were referring to
blue gills and other species of small sunfish and didn't think green sunfish inhabited the NE; that
was true 40 years ago I just found out; in recent years green sunfish have moved into the North East.


In NJ we use the word "sunnies" for pretty much any type of sunfish, especially blue gills. I don't know if we have green sunfish up here but we do have pumpkinseeds, which is what's in my pic above. The faces of the two fish are similar but that beautiful blue color continues throughout the body on a pumpkinseed.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2016 8:11 pm • # 15 
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Thanks Knotty. If you haven't seen one, the green sunfish has a larger mouth than the other species of similar sunfish.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2016 10:43 pm • # 16 
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According to USGS they're not native to NJ.

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=380


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2016 11:22 pm • # 17 
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Right, more like invasive. Go to
http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactShee ... ciesID=380
then click on Animated Map. It will show the spread of the Green Sunfish
year by year. I don't know where exactly New Jersey is, but the Green Sunfish
looks to cover the North East pretty well.
I never saw a Green Sunfish in North Carolina or Georgia (states I fished in) in the 60s/70s.
The first one I saw was in Kansas in 1974 and didn't see another until I moved to Texas
in 1984. From what I have seen in both Kansas and Texas, they are the primary inhabitants of
very small streams (bless them) but also inhabit larger bodies of water.
Don't know why the Green Sunfish is getting such attention as to rate an animated map, maybe a doctorate thesis
or something like that.
According to the fact sheet at the above
URL Green Sunfish were introduced in Northern New Jersey in 1980 (implied:maybe by accidental stocking); maybe
they do not adapt well to New Jersey.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2016 10:07 am • # 18 
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The Green Sunfish does not fight as hard as the Blue Gill in my opinion. They are fun on top water as they attack with gusto but give up fairly quickly.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2016 10:33 am • # 19 
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Linecaster I agree with the fact they do give up easy usually. As with everything in life and fishing there are those few that are the exception. The one in the picture I posted fought hard enough for me to think it was a bass till I saw it.


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 Post subject: Re: Guber Bugs
PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2016 4:40 pm • # 20 
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With that larger mouth it makes sense that greens would be fun on top water. Bluegills so often hit but miss poppers and such, probably because of their little mouths.


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