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Hello guys, I was wondering if anyone here has any luck fishing panfish with fly fishing lures? I myself am new to that theory but I seen on the net that it's possible. So how would be the best way to do it though? go out and buy a fly rod & reel, or can you just put it on your line like you would live bait? like, remove your live bait hook and replace it with a fly lure? :dono
Sure, it's possible, and a lot of us catch 'em on flies. Bream are bug-eaters, just like trout. Buy a simple fly rod combo and a few flies (poppers or sponge spiders on top and small bead head nymphs or woolly buggers for sub-surface.) That's really all you need to get started.Quote:
Originally Posted by digihax
For more info, see here:
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/panfi...-fly-rods.html
... and here:
Fly Fishing
Thnx man...
I use flies under a cork with good luck
Blue Gill Special...get white, yellow, chartreuse, black, or combinations...
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tie youu up some of these. there called cap spiders.Attachment 112453
YJ:
what size are those, and for a fly rod I assume?
I drop shot with a # 8 wooly bugger with good success.
they are 1/32nd. im gonna throw them on my 5wt, and fish them on my crappie pole
Bob/MN how are you drop shotting wiht a wooly bugger?
A 1/4 once bell sinker on the end of the line, and a # 8 woolly bugger 18 inches up from the sinker. I use a Palomar knot to attach the fly.Quote:
Originally Posted by yellowjacket
The rig was fished on the bottom of a break in 15 FOW during the soft water season.
I've caught some really nice ones fishing black ants under a small bobber or clear bubble float. If there's any wind blowing, just cast out and let it drift with the wind.
Once you start fly fishing you will be hooked. Tenn. is a great place to fly fish for trout. Fly fishing for bream (pan fish) is very active during the spring all the way till winter. Like some of the other guys said, the pan fish are bug eaters and a floating fly thrown around brush, stumps, docks, and lilly pads is a great way to get you excited. Go on google and type in Fly fishing for pan fish. Give it a try and I promise you will be glad you did.
Chet
I highly recomend getting a flyrod and going after panfish, they love hitting top water and fight great on a flyrod.
The shellcracker and Gill spawn will start in Late March early April around here and I plan on being ready..Fly fishing is so much fun. Chet
You can take a lot of panfish real quick on a fly rod, when the conditions are right. I haven't done that in years now, but back when I did, I preferred light colored trout nymphs so I could see the takes and they didn't sink fast enough to be out of sight between casts. When working a bluegill spawning bed I would work out my line and then roll cast around the bed. After that it was finding feeding and holding areas. Nice thing about a roll cast is that not only can you go over an area pretty quickly, but you also don't need to worry about clear space behind for the back cast. Very often when fishing bluegills and other sunfish there isn't much if any on the shoreline.
There are quite a few guys who do something like that through the ice too, except since then we can fish two hooks, they generally put a tipped jig on the bottom instead of a plain sinker. One can also drop shot live and dough baits. We did just that for carp and catfish last summer with some pretty good results for the carp, less for the cats. I also see it used with live minnows for walleyes, perch and crappies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob/MN
It is a very adaptable technique.
I agree BigMike315. Fly fishing is an art and a great form of fishing.
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I fish with flies all the time for blue gill and use this type of bobber with various leader length's to the fly. The bobber helps alot with spinning rods and casting distance. I tip the fly with a wax worm quite often also. Usually fast action and my kids love it.
X2 and it's so much fun when they're bedding!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BobberStopper
Nice, I had no idea you could use flies for slip float fishing, unless I'm wrong ofc. But I don't suppose it would hurt to experiment lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by yellowjacket
I've been getting some decent sized brim on pheasant tail nymphs size #12 or 14. They probably average 7 to 8".
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I use a jitterbee under a cork with wind. When the weather is calm i use a jitterbee on a flyrod with real good success.
What all have you caught on the jitterbee? I like the looks of itQuote:
Originally Posted by Scoot
I use the jitterbee strickly for bream. When I target Crappie I use handtied jigs. Mainly black/chat. and blue and white.
Scoot,
Thanks for sharing about the jitterbee. I've used standard bee patterns with success before, and the jitterbee looks like an improvement. I'll be tying up a couple to try out this year for sure!
Brim killer if you can find them.
Used to think that the Trim Gim popper was the only fly to have, but since tying my own, I have begun to really like a black foam spider or a bully bluegill spider under an indicator.
This is from Jim Hatch at the FAOL board:
"Good question to start off the new warmwater board. I can truthfully say that I've been flyfishing for warmwater fish for half a century now.*G* But alas, I must admit that my learning curve only started in the last few years as a result of information gleaned on this site. Up until that point, flyfishing for bluegills or bass was simply a matter of putting a popping bug where you thought a fish might be. Sometimes they worked well, and at other times it was an exercise in futility.
Thanks to articles by Al Campbell, Old Rupe, Fritz, RK and others, I finally got the message that warmwater fish are just like trout in thier eating habits. If you want to catch more/bigger warmwater fish, go trout fishing for them. Find out what they are feeding on and match it. My best bluegill trip ever was using some PT nymphs I got from you, fishing them 18" below one of my poppers. That afternoon, I caught over 120 bluegills and shellcrackers. Only six of them took the popping bug. That was an eye opener for me. I've since had similar days using other nymphs, midges, scuds, and a whole host of trout flies. I've learned to identify the bugs before I slap them and to tie an imitation to my line and try it.
In my local waters, midges and scuds seem most productive. In particular on the red eared sunfish that I much enjoy fishing for. Prior to this year, bluegills greatly outnumbered my red eared sunfish catches but this year, I have turned it around.*G* I can concentrate my efforts on the red ears almost to the exclusion of the bluegills. Why would I want to do this? Many of our red ears here on the Santee Cooper lakes will exceed 2 pounds and 5 pound red ears are not unheard of. My best to date has been over 3 pounds on the little banty. If that doesn't put a grin on your face, nothing will.*G* My advice to flyfishermen wanting to target warmwater fish is to go trout fishing in warm waters. It works for me.
Pete, my biggest red eared sunfish have been taken on #16 to #20 midges and scuds. Fishing larger flies increases the odds of my catching bluegills instead of red ears as does fishing dry flies. Warm regards, Jim"
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http://www.crappie.com/crappie/fly-f...cker-tips.html
What color do you like best on the bully bluegill spider? I'm guessing it doesn't float?? ThanksQuote:
Originally Posted by Sky Pilot
Wademaster, I have just used the billy bluegill spider this past year, but the colors that I liked best were black or olive with black or white rubber legs. I also am making poppers this winter out of flip flops. I used a hot needle to thread a string then the rubber legs through them on some and some I just tied the rubber on the outside like you would a foam spider on others. The great thing about tying your own is that you can experiment without very much capital involved.
Here is another one on a fly this morning. Beadhead caddis nymph, size #12
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...pse20fe507.jpg
Not a bluegill but still pulled on the string, note the fly on my index finger nail.
Stevefishes, what kind of fish is that ?
That is a Tilapia
I thought thats what is was. Dem tings aint made to south Louisiana yet.
You "could" do either. But, if you want to use it on anything other than a flyrod ... leave the sinker on the line (for wet flies). Dry flies & poppers can be cast & fished using a float ... especially good are the "torpedo" style casting bubbles.Quote:
Originally Posted by digihax
.... cp :kewl
Attachment 115904black gnats made by a co. called "4- rivers" out of greenwood/greenville ms . (can never remember whick ) . they are out of buissness now but it is just like betts except betts has a feather that does not sink as well . when i run out I will buy the betts and cut the feather off .Attachment 115905