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An early springtime crappie caught on a brightly colored soft hackle
When the trees begin to bud out, and winter finally releases its grip on the landscape, my thoughts start drifting towards springtime crappie fishing.
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Even though we are often plagued with “hard water” during the winter, things will eventually thaw out, and our lakes and ponds will become soft again. Is it possible to catch bluegill and other panfish on the fly during the winter? Absolutely!
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The Panfish Wiggler
Being in a warm water state of mind at that moment, the fly looked like it would serve as a reasonable imitation of a dragonfly or even a damselfly nymph. That began my experimentation with the pattern as a warm water fly.
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Bluegills and other panfish can't resist the green eyed damselfly!
In warm water environments, all species of panfish and larger fish like largemouth and smallmouth bass feed heavily on damselfly nymphs. Even though a size eight Green Eyed Damsel is a relatively small fly, drop one on the nose of a largemouth bass patrolling a shoreline and he is likely to pounce on it.
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The Mop Dragon is a "mop fly" that even the anti-mop crowd will love!
Flies using dust mop material have been around for many years now. Mop flies as they are known, are embraced by some and scorned by others.
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