Spring Pan Fish

[kyungpow]

Hello to everyone, I'm new to the forum.

Question about Spring fishing for panfish, when do you guys typically start to fish for crappie, blue gill, sun fish etc.?

I tried APR 11th of this year at Rice Lake just to get my line wet and catch a few panfish and ended up with nothing.

Did I try to early? lol....

Thanks in advance.

 

[ChromeAddict]

I'm going for panfish this Sunday. Tired of getting skunked on steelhead.. Lol. You gotta slow down in the colder water. Small hair jigs, flies and plastics fished under a float work well.

 

[kyungpow]

AHHH okay, so they are there, I just didn't give the right presentation.

Thanks for the tips Chrome!

 

[Northern_Angler]

I go out for panfish as soon as conditions are safe for me to do so. But, as the previous reply has stated, you need to have a slow, light presentation. I find fishing a slip bobber with a red worm extremely effective on rice. Also I try to find areas where there are streams feeding into the lake, that's usually where i find the most success.