

Like bass and panfish, they spend all their time eating, resting and hiding from predators. In rivers, trout face upstream bringing the food to them.

Trout are coldwater fish, so you will only find them in rivers, lakes and ponds that have cold water year round. Use our interactive map to find other fly fishing spots in your area. Learn to spot these structures, and you can locate the places where you should cast your fly for panfish. Panfish also love structures, such as boat docks, duck blinds, depressions in the pond bottom or shallow reefs. In spring, they spawn along shorelines, in nests that look like light-colored, oval depressions. In ponds and lakes, panfish (such as crappie, sunfish and bluegill) like shallow weedy areas because that's where most of the foods they eat live. You will also find them in warm-water rivers along weedy shorelines and in shallow bays. If you want to catch pandfish keep in mind that these relatively small fish usually live in warm-water lakes and ponds. Presentation: Get your fly to the fish in a natural and lifelike way.Imitation: Have your fly look like the foods fish eat.Location: Know the local fish and you are halfway to catching them.

Here are four fly fishing basics to catching fish: Even if you cannot pack up and take a trip to a dream locale, most people still have a favorite fly fishing spot close to home. Deciding where to go fly fishing is just as important as deciding when to go.
