I like a short 4wt for panfish like sunfish and crappie. I have a 5wt I use in the smokies for trout and tailrace fishing below the damns. I have a 6wt that I never use, my 5 serves me well for trout and the 6 isn't enuff for the bass bugs I want to throw so a 8wt is in my near future. Plus I can fish strippers with the 8wt.

If I had to choose 1 for trout and panfisit would be a 4wt. for bass and strippers a 8wt.

You can take that with a grain of rice since I'm probably the least experienced on the thread. But it works for me.


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