Flies for Panfish.

A red tail, yellow-and-black chenille bands and soft hen-hackle collar, without a wing.

A yellow chenille body, four rubber legs and rear weighting for a tail-first descent.

A compact, weighted caddis pupa with a translucent, segmented green body.

A chenille worm tail and soft hackle combine in a compact carp searching fly.

Sparse bucktail and weighted eyes create a baitfish fly that fishes hook-point up.

A tent-shaped hair wing and hackled body suggest adult caddis on the surface.

A foam shell and peacock belly give a compact beetle profile along banks.

A buoyant foam head pushes water while a soft tail moves between pops.

Two dubbed segments separated by a narrow waist create a simple ant silhouette.

A foam lip makes a waking or splashing surface fly with a light baitfish tail.

Jack Gartside’s impressionistic fly uses a short pheasant-rump tail, rough fur body, soft collar and aftershaft head.

A weighted, leggy warmwater fly with a twisted ice-chenille body and rubber legs.

A shaggy, natural nymph with a gold rib and mottled wingcase. Let the guard hairs do the work.

Randall Kaufmann’s olive stillwater dragonfly nymph with marabou tail, fur-blend body, turkey wingcase and prominent eyes.

A supple olive damselfly nymph with a marabou tail and body and weighted eyes.

Yellow-red-yellow bucktail over silver tinsel creates a recognizable baitfish attractor.

A slim, copper-ribbed mayfly profile, finished here with a peacock thorax and fiber legs.

Guard-hair tail, two shades of squirrel dubbing and barred rubber legs under a bead.

An uncomplicated chenille worm for a slow drift near the bottom.

A reversed foam popper head slides and wakes with a quieter surface action.

A copper-ribbed pheasant-tail nymph finished with a mobile partridge collar, shown here with a gold bead.

A marabou tail and soft, palmered hackle suggest leeches, baitfish, and larger aquatic food.

A short red tag, chenille body, and grizzly hackle make a compact searching fly.

Peacock herl, a barred wingcase, and soft legs create a dark searching nymph.