Fishing Forum

So what's the first fly YOU tie on when hitting a new panfish water?
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poper or a pheasant tail and welcome to the site, what do you use?
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If the water is clear it will be a small foam hopper, if its murkey a beadhead prince nymph.
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I'm still a rookie at panfish so I don't have a go-to fly.. I did learn the value of rubber spiders and clouser minnows this weekend. Had a lot of fun at Crane Falls and was pretty frustrated at the small lake at Bruneau Dunes.
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what happened at Crane Falls, might be there this weekend.
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My go to fly for panfish is a Red Neck. It is a essentially a Blond Stayner with an orange beard and a red gill slash. I need to tie up some for this year.

Other than that I use black crystal buggers, gold ribbed hare's ears, ratty dragons, and red and chartreuse buggers.

There are some pictures of some of them here in this post:
http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gfo...ost=720771

The Red Neck is the one on the lower left side. That one has a green wing. I also like it with a grey wing.
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Had a ton of fun casting black rubber spider into the reeds and taking decent sized blue gill on top. Then switched to Clouser minnow (never fished before) and trolled / stripped to catch others. Bluegill were very decent size, crappie very small, bass even smaller. Had greatest luck with Skunk streamers when guy in-the-know said anything white works.

Heard stories of 11 inch bluegills in small Bruneau lake. Fished all day Sunday and saw nothing like this. F and G took a tank of bluegills out for planting and 20+ boats/tubes took lots for meat so not alot left Sunday during prime time. Very interesting. Saw 75+ small bass taken but not much in the way of bluegills. I was skunked on Sunday using same techniques that worked day before in Crane. Son caught 3 bass and 3 bluegills in small lake. Really slow. Still scratching my head. Love to hear what experienced panfish guy has to say after the weekend. Go get em.
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Size 10 "Cats Whisker" with either a red or chartruese body
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Good call!
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does the marabou have to be white???
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Try different...
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reason I ask is that I know I dont have white at home but do have chartreuse, red, black, orange, and purple I think...never thought of white..

Im going to TN in a few weeks and figured Id tie some of these up to see if I can catch a fish or two.. Im also going to tie up some red worms/red worm nymphs...

MacFly [cool]
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Try some different colors
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Im thinking chartreuse with red body to start... or red with chartreuse body... :-) .. and then I move on to the bloodworm/bloodworm nymph...

the hook listed for the bloodworm is a tiemco 2457... do you think that will work for the cats whisker as well.. in size 10 or 12??

MacFly
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That is a scud hook, you need streamer hooks for the whisker
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Ive never tried anything but white marabou Might have to die some of mine different colors and try it.
I tied on a red body with white marabou and made a killing last night. Not sure what it is or why, but this is the first fly that I have seen fish rocket from one side of the pond to the other just to attack it.
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After all the questions I had I tied up these for my trip to TN... regretfully I did not get to use them... any feedback is appreciated... :-)

[url "http://i1270.photobucket.com/albums/jj607/MacFly1955/catswhisker.jpg"]http://i1270.photobucket.com/...1955/catswhisker.jpg[/url]
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Even Baxter Likes those!!!!!
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LOL.. well if they meet Baxster approval then I must of done them correctly..[cool]
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[quote macfly55]After all the questions I had I tied up these for my trip to TN... regretfully I did not get to use them... any feedback is appreciated... :-)

[url "http://i1270.photobucket.com/albums/jj607/MacFly1955/catswhisker.jpg"]http://i1270.photobucket.com/...1955/catswhisker.jpg[/url][/quote]

Should work just fine!
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