There's a guy in our tying club named Joe Kiselica who specializes in
fresh water patterns and bass. He recently tied a "Texas Crawdad"
which he says is great for bass, and is probably similar to the
crawfish pattern Mark recommended. You can check out the Texas Crawdad
pattern at www.uftri.com, click on Fly Catalog, then click on the
Texas Crawdad and it will show you the picture and the pattern recipe.
(Also as someone mentioned, the wooly bugger is a huge goto pattern
for bass. Last season a mongo-sized bass broke my line after a short
fight, after he hit a black wooley bugger with an olive head, on a
pretty large hook, it was a 4 or a 6. That was in Candelwood Lake, CT)

Also, I'm new to this newsgroup so I'm not sure where most of you are
from, but if you're in the Northeast, UFTRI (United Fly Tyers of Rhode
Island) is putting on it's first Fly Tying show on Saturday April 3,
2004. Here's a flyer detailing the show if you can make it:
http://www.uftri.com/snefts/symposium2004.asp

Tight wraps,

Doug



"Mark W. Oots" mark_ctc@(delete this)ameritech.net wrote in message . com...
"Hooked" wrote in message
...
I don't fish much for trout, and I was just wondering, how many of you
fish
for smallmouth bass and what is your favorite fly for catching the "gamest
fish that swims"?


Chart/white clouser, Kaufmann black stone fly, assorted Peck's Poppers, and
size 8 - 1/0 gurglers. I've had fair luck on red fox clousers (crawfish
pattern), but in the Kankakee River, you lose a lot of anything that bounces
along the bottom.

Mark


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