Thread: Panfish Lures (What's worked for you)?

i love when the gills go on bed. If you are using a float and you throw out, your hook hits the water before the float and the gills react so quick that many times your floater never comes back up. They are on before your floater hits the water, i mean a split second thats how fast. It is so much fun. We use to wade very very slowly in an area when I was a kid and as long as you moved extremely slow, you could just about straddle a gill bed and fish right down between your legs and catch them. It aint that easy anymore, but I sure miss those days. Those gills will gaurd a bed pretty tight. So sometimes you can get right on them before they will leave the bed.

Beetle spins it is green,yellow,black,or white. Also roostertails. But crickets work best for me.

Attached Photo is my favorite for Brim.
I call them "Brim Jigs" This is the new model .. the old one was Marine Epoxy Painted .. eyes painted on red on white,
Use it below a spin bubble or on ultra lite with out float. I have caught a lot of them with this (got to pour some other color tails but the red has been the best with a black head ... even have a 8# plus Bass on it).

#6 & #8 most of the time the #6 is the best.

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Hands down GRIZZLY JIGS the 1/80 Tidwells Teal tipped with a waxworm or a powerbait will catch any thing that swims there are several colors that work great but that one is my favorite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are right Tidwells Teal is a great one, but that lil Bill's Water Flea is hands down the best bluegill jig I have ever used. ole Mike

for bream i've been most successful with crickets. for crappie gimme a jig anyday...

My all time favorite is a black(wet) fly tipped with maggot/waxie, no weight(or very small split 18" up) 5' lead to adjust-a-bubble. Throw it out and left it drift down. But, If I'm in the summer when theyre spread out more, and mixin with the litt uns , I like to use a bomber fat a crank (B03 size) in firetiger or blue/silver. The smaller gills dont mess with it too much , but the bigger ones cant resist..... kinda helps to "seperate the men from the boys" . Oh and you would be surprised at the size of some of the bass and specks you will catch on them, for such a small crank.

Yep- Black Gnat wet fly tipped with a wax worm. I like to fish mine with a "casting bubble". A torpedo shaped float with ane eye on both ends. I like the smaller ones, about 1/2" diameter at the widest part, about 2" long. Tie about a 2 foot leader to the blunt end with the black gnat at the end. the long tapered end of the float to the rod end. The float provides all the weight you need for a long cast.

Fish it "horizontal" --taking up all the slack as soon as it hits the water. The wet fly sloww drifts down -and gets hit. When you see the slightest "scoot" of the bubble on the surface - take him. The bubble doesn't go DOWN - but scoots on the surface as the gill turns to swim away.

If no bite - reel a little in. This will raise the fly to the surface. Stop, and let it drift down again.
If it don't get hit - there ain't no gills there!!!!!!

It's a lot like fly fishing without a fly rod.