I had a pretty bad day casting in the wind at a local lake yesterday, and as a result I decorated several bushes with my poppers and jitterbees. I found myself re-rigging at dusk, when I should have been fishing, so I grabbed a topwater trout fly and tied it on just to have something atop the water. It was a #12 adams to be exact.

Those bream went crazy. I hooked fat little BG's one after another for a good 15 minutes and they had been spooky all day. I never think about it, but here in Louisiana our mosquitos run about size 10-12, and we have legions of them. This must be a primary food source.

Next time you have spooky panfish drop a trout fly on them.