I've developed some flies which while not exactly revolutionary should at least change the way people think. For starters fly distributors are guilty of making the ugliest bunch of junk and passing it off as a panfish fly. To me a fly should fish well, be easy to make and look attractive to the fly-fisher. The fly fisher either has to make his own or use his trout flies.
Trout flies in and of themselves are fine, the problem is that they are designed for trout.
Panfish and bass are members of the same species of fish-Centrachids or sunfish. They feed by various stimulous-sight,sound, smell and feel. Trout on the otherhand have a lesser orientation to sound and are more sight oriented since they lack the large lateral sound senses that sunfishes have. One of the difficulties in designing panfish flies is that panfish behave like bass. Often they will strike flies many times larger than themselves.