What is your favorite fly or popper to use when fishing for panfish (bluegill, bream, shell cracker, etc)?
Panfish on a fly rod
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I use a #10 popper and hang a tellico off the bend with about 10" of 4lb test. It's just about impossible to get it in without getting bit.
That's what she said.
You attach a Tellico fly to the popper with a 10 inch long piece of monofilament line?
Do the fish hit the popper or the Tellico?
Sometimes one sometimes the other but that splash draws attention and that tellico is drifting down, they can't stand it.
I don't know what the name of them are but @scn Has some that are killer !!!
I've used the foam body spider with rubber legs for years.
i use the betts stuff. fairly cheap and i toss them when the bluegill chew them up. i need to restock a few vut here is basically what it use for mainly gills and black crappie when theyre sucking bugs.
mostly use the white foam bream getter but the black dry is real good when the black caddis hatch. i like the wooly worms too.
mostly use the white foam bream getter but the black dry is real good when the black caddis hatch. i like the wooly worms too.
Those black ones with white legs are what I was talking about. Drop that anywhere near them and hang on!
yeah the one to far left mimics a lake fly which hatch starting in late february to may. usually a zebra midge dropper in red is really good. it mimics the larvae stage which we call blood worms.
I'd have to agree with a popper dropper setup. I usually start with a chartreuse popper and either a pink or green weenie for the dropper. I also usually trim back the rubber legs on poppers that have them because a lot of times they will bite at the legs instead of the body.
thirdwilliam
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I'm a small foam popper guy as well. love the bluegill bite
