if you have never flyrod fished for panfish you need to do that at least once in your life. Especially with little poppers.

you can take a small natural color cork and put a trout fly about a ft under it and tip that fly with a power bait or small live bait like a mealworm or tiny piece of red wiggler or any one of a dozen things. Cast it with a light action spin rod or dip it with a long pole. A natural cork float does not spook them and you just buy a cheap trout fly assortment and find one they bite the fastest. don't even need to tip it somedays. You can experiment with dry and wet flys. Its fun to see them float and hit it on the surface. Other days they want it to sink a little.

when they go deeper a cricket or redworm fished on a small hook with a spitshot on the bottom will catch them about as good as anything.