Panfish Patterns
Besides the basic small poppers, ants, and beetles, try a few of these flies on your favorite panfish lake this season. Always have small Clousers and some bead head nymphs of various colors for subsurface exploration.
Heres a couple of steelhead patterns that work well for panfish:
Green Butt:
Hook: Size 8 Tail: Red hackle fibers Body (Butt): Yellow green chenille, two turns Body: Black chenille Hackle: Black, 2 – 3 turns soft hackle Weight as necessary.
Pink Mascara
This is a wonderful crappie fly, basically a reverse egg sucking leech.
 Black Woolly Bugger with a bright pink Butt.
Size to suit conditions, usually size 6, 3X long.
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