Hello everyone.
I am getting back into fishing a bit and want to fly more. Bream, bass, shell cracker,are my main targets. What flies to use and does the colors make a difference or is motion the key?
I have always had my best luck with largemouth and bream on topwater patterns. My favorite are the dragonflys. Scotty has some at the Lowcountry fly shop. Also I have had luck on cricket patterns and small worm patterns. I have found several flys imitating big worms because that is my preferred bass fishing technique are plastic worms on regular tackle. for some reason I cannot get a bass to eat the big worm fly patterns ive found. im still much of an amateur but that’s my experience…dragonflies!
Thanks I will have to get a couple and try them out.
My favorite flies for pan fish are top-water patterns. Mini gurglers with some silly legs, stealth bombers, poppers and stimulaters are a blast to fish with. If for some reason they will not eat the flies listed above, the olive bugger mashes.
Declaring Jihad on fish, yours truely, Captain Ron
I always have good luck with poppers similar to this. Especially with the bream and bass.
Nice thanks!
Bream often like a “dead bug” presentation. Just let it sit for a while and then give it only a very slight twitch. I have most luck with stop and go for bass…jerk jerk, wait, repeat.
As to what type of fly, match the hatch. I have a new stocked pond and the bream won’t touch a live cricket because they’ve never seen them. They like flies that look like dragonfly larvae and I would think they’d like crickets because they look similar. The bass would hit small frogs earlier this Spring but have gotten pickier since the bream fry are so plentiful. They’ve switch to a mostly minnow diet.