Foam spiders and a fly I found called a Corkie Doo (local maker)
that is a big popper I like to use for largemouth. Most of the flys I use for Bream are dry flys and nymphs. I fish more smallmouth bass so I use a lot of Crawfish patterns and Clouser minnows. Look at my profile, I fish alot in Gatlinburg and Pigeon forge my Dads friend owns Smokey Mountain angler.

It's hard to beat a damsel fly. Bass will fly out of the water hitting them. Bream love to pop at them. i caught my very first bass ever on a damsel fly. I also found that a tan stonefly nymph with a bead head will make bream go crazy. It looks and sinks just like a cricket. if they don't take it, then I let it sink to the bottom and twitch strip it in for perch.

Just drop the damsel next to structure where the flies might land and where fish are hanging out. Lily pads are great. Just hang on tight for the ride.

i fish in central iowa so bluegill and bass are my bread and butter. I tie my own flies and have found that bluegills arent particularly picky, but some things work better than others. Your standard hare's ear and pheasant tail are as deadly as anything i have tried. The bass flies i fish are almost exclusively my own creations. I have caught bass on large versions of standard trout flies, like size 6 or 4 hare's ears. On a different note, i think flyfisherman have an advantage over spinfisherman when it comes to bass and panfish, because how many pressured bass have seen a bass fly before?
Keep your loops tight boys!

I live on the lake and during the warm months I get out my fly rod and go catch perch. The smaller the better because later in the evening I take those perch, if I havent eaten them and use them for catfish bait on my jugs! Fun all day!

Poppers and wooly worms. Sometimes a clouser or crawfish pattern.

Here in Kansas Bass and Panfish are the primary species I have opportunities to fly-fish for. For panfish, put on a nymph with a bead-head! I have good luck with Prince Nymphs, but just about any nymph with a bead head will do, by the end of the day you will be wearing out flies. For bass you cant go wrong with a woolly-bugger, especially if they have a little flash to them; get creative and who knows what you will turn up. Black and chartreuse are always a god start. I have also had luck with a few leech patterns. I have not really had a whole lot of luck with dry flies for panfish of bass, but they may work for you.

Try a popper with a dropper (about 18-24"). We found with Peacock Bass the popper attracted fish but most of them were hooked on the dropper. For Peacocks you want a big popper and a big streamer on the dropper but for domestic bass use a medium sized popper with a small streamer on the dropper, blue & white or red & white. Small poppers alone work well for crappie, blue gill, sunfish, etc. Work the edges of ponds near cover.

I live in Michigan and spend quite a bit of time flinging fur for bass and panfish, when i am not on a stream chasing trout. I like to use buggers in an olive color, tied sparse for bass and crappie early in the season. they closely mimick a damsel nymph. i also like to use clousers (tied up smaller sizes they work great for crappie and gills). later on in the season, frog patterns (stp frog) and bigger dry fly/ foam ant patterns work great.

for gills i will primarily use anything bright and shiny during the early months. as the heat comes up, i will switch to a grifiths gnat (sp?). spiders always work all season. the other thing i like to use is a dace or a mickey finn. they work great if tied small and with flashabou instead of buck tail.

I use to flyfish for Crappie, using a Mickey Finn. What a blast, they had that fly so beat up that there was only a few strands of hair left on it and they were still biting.

Here in bama I tye deer hair frogs and poppers for bass, but when the gills aren't hitting top water I go to a pink producer, the gills love it sometimes bass will hit it too.

This is how i learned to fly fish. If you can get the hook set down for bass and panfish, you're ready for trout. Another good thing, bass and panfish do not spook as easily as trout so this is also good for practicing all your casting methods needed to catch trout. I use a lot of the same flies to catch bass as i do for trout, just different sizes.

I'm a Wisconsinite who fishes off docks with my buddy. We catch Bluegills and bass all summer long. I love useing poppers for bass, and use a bright San Juan Worm. Panfish will be real attracted to that. And if you don't fly fish. Get yourself 1/32 oz. jig heads with Berkley's new Gulp! Alive minnows. Use the 1-inch minnows for panfish and 3-inch for bass.

Where in ca Flytieflyfish??? I live a little more than an hour north of San Fransisco.

I am a bama boy as well, I fish lake jordan and the coosa river.
I tye deerhair frogs with spinnerbait skirt legs and crawfish and deerhair poppers for bass
And you can never go wrong with a wooley bugger it seems like it will catch almost any kind of fish here in the south even catfish!