whats your favorite panfish rig??

[cal okeefe]

i have been using a small mitchell reel and a ultra light berkley tactix rod.. like many of you i have many poles but i allways pick this one for some reason.. i have alot more expensive setups but they are collecting dust. ( st croix-allstar)

[David, aka, "McScruff"]

Id add that the thin waggler/pencil/quill bobbers can take some bit of finesse to cast. At least in my experience. They don't fly like a bullet at all.

[Leo Nguyen]

So true..so true. That's why you use it with the fly fishing gear. You use the line's weight to cast that rig. If you're using the open reel, it's more of the chuck and toss near the boat/float/pier as vertical jigging method near the weed line or tules.

[Dwayne Denison]

and if your like me, they are hard to see

[Leo Nguyen]

ROFL I'm already there. I'm a four-eye. Without my glasses or contact, I can't see at all, let alone see any type of shadow of the bobber 5 ft in front of me.

[Dwayne Denison]

Leo, mine are getting so bad,even with glasses, that some of the light line I use I have to tie at home under a big lighted magnify glass

[David, aka, "McScruff"]

I always paint the tips of my wagglers white - and then bright orange. Then I can see them better.

[JBplusThuy]

I'm a four-eye, too. In the video posted earlier in this topic, there's a great explanation of weighting the quills with just enough shot to almost sink them (using a clear vase as the test pond), then marking the water line with a sharpie and writing on the quill how much weight it needs. Then you paint the part above the water line orange. Make allowance for the weight of the bait, too.

[Lord of the Fly , Rods]

I prefer that about 35-40% of the quill stick out of the water, that way they are easier to see and and you can see any action or twitch  ,or change of the angle of the tip when the fish are licking on your bait. Another tip if you are going to be using a quill is replace the cheap little rubberbands with a O-RING, they hold better. Quills can also be used as depth finders , if they never stand up vertical you know that your bait is on the bottom , not floating above the bottom.      LOFR

[David, aka, "McScruff"]

@ Lord - with this much sticking above the water, you have what our British friends might call a balanced waggler, as opposed to a stick float. I like the idea of an oring, too. Much more rigid.

As for its use as a depth finder - too funny!

[Lord of the Fly , Rods]

Well it's not really a depth finder but if you have more line below the quill than the depth of the water the quill will always stay on it's side floating on the water and never float vertical, to adjust the depth , just slide the quill on the leader, the o--ring will keep it in place.   LOFR

[Lord of the Fly , Rods]

If yall would like to see a review of this quill technique, I sent a couple of quills to Boogieman to try out ,  Look at his photo's  and blog post of Sept 24 , 2010 . LOFR

[Vic Tankersley]

I do good to see the water hAhA...thats why I need the slightly larger flourecent colored weighted water splashing cricket sinking floats set at around 4 ft deep this seems to wake those little buggers up and make them eat something. I really don't want to fool around with those hard to get, finickey Bluegill. I want them PIGGYS. If I catch any more than what I catch I'm going to get fined anyway.LOLRITFLMAO..PS: I also like the bober stops floats for the middle of summer when they go deep. These have been hard to figure out but with a little help from the depth finder and some super glue you can sure nail them little cricket snatchers