Rod wt for Bluegill and Crappie

[anglerdave]

Alan,
As far as fly size goes, I routinely fish in wind both from shore and boats. A 3 wt. will cast quite well with unweighted flies up to around 1/0 (deer hair and foam popper/sliders/frogs) and weighted 'buggers and such to size 4. For the fish you mentioned, you won't need flies this big.


Good Luck!

Buddy

With all due respect, I think throwing a 1/0 popper and #4 weighted bugger on a 3wt is too much fly for too small of a rod.

I fish my 3wt for gills if the wind is down, but my go to rod is my 8' 5wt. And no I do not throw big bugs on that rod either.