Don Phillipson wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:
A 7wt outfit is perfect for panfish ?!!?

My error: I should have written that fly size #2 to #14 is
the normal range of flies for which a 7-wt outfit is perfect.
(The #1 streamer is just too heavy for most casters on a
7-=wt; #2s are OK.) As the original text suggests, the
7-wt outfit is perfect for this range of fly size -- not for
any one particular species of fish.

That's right. One can cast a panfish fly with a 7wt but
that doesn't make a 7wt the perfect fly fishing tool for
panfish. A 7wt is *way* too much rod to be anything other
than a servicable but less than ideal fly rod for panfish.

--
Ken Fortenberry