I used a bee pattern fly over the weekend and caught a ton of large bream(sunfish, insert your word for it here______________ ) and rock bass.

Basically it is:

-10-12 nymph/streamer hook.
-yellow chenile at the front half
-black chenile on the back half
-black hackle over the front half of the fly.

Very simple and very effective.

I'd cast it and let it sit a few seconds to let it barely start to sink. If it didn't get hit by now which it did a lot of the time I'd very slowly pull it thru the water. I wouldn't call it 'stripping' by any stretch of the imagination. It would get hit about every cast by something.

Cast it close to shore under an over-hanging branch, near a dock or any cover these fish take.

Of course I was in a boat. I never knew fly fishing would be soooooooooo much fun from a boat!

I caught a few bass on a popper also. Fun day.