Decisions, decisions. If you’re a fly angler, you have lots to make. Yes, there are plenty of different lures on tackle-shop shelves, but not nearly as many as there are different fly patterns in well ...

Put something in front of a panfish that looks more like what they normally eat and you often don't need bait. Panfish live in a wonderful underwater world. A world that consists of plants, wood, sand ...

Fly fishing is synonymous with trout. When most people think about fly fishing, they conjure images of mountain streams and fish sipping mayflies and caddisflies off the surface. It’s true that the ...

Bream or bluegills are in shallow water spawning throughout much of the First Coast, and great fishing for the tasty panfish is available in almost any pond, lake, creek or river that isn't too salty.

I wish I had discovered fly fishing when I was a kid. I spent hours collecting grasshoppers and tossing them into Louisiana ponds, bayous and lakes, just to watch mostly bluegill and bass peck them ...

"Wood" was the answer — or at least a very short and key part of it. Terry and Roxanne Wilson are a husband-wife fly fishing team, authors and recognized experts on fly fishing for panfish. They ...

Much of the year, a flyrod, like a golf club, is an instrument ill-suited to its designed purpose. This is particularly true around public bass lakes of the south, where it takes some real dedication ...

Traveling back to my home state of Ohio, I planned on fly fishing as much as possible. My younger brother, Dan, loaded a full week of destinations into our angling itinerary. Farm ponds, little creeks ...