warm water flies....

Anyone have favorite flies for bass?

I have been using a small selection of frog styled poppers and would like
to try a wider selection.


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Ric Hamel
A misplaced Alaskan lost in ConUS

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:07:11 GMT, "Alaskan420" wrote:

Anyone have favorite flies for bass?

I have been using a small selection of frog styled poppers and would like
to try a wider selection.

Frog-colored poppers are my favorite bass bug, I have a dozen of 'em ready to
go fishing if the fricken' weather cooperates. They work amazingly well where
I fish for smallies, and there's nothing more fun to fish than floating bugs
when smallies are involved. If they aren't working, the fish aren't eating...

/daytripper

"Alaskan420" wrote in message
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Anyone have favorite flies for bass?

I have been using a small selection of frog styled poppers and would like
to try a wider selection.


--
Ric Hamel
A misplaced Alaskan lost in ConUS



I've gotten to where I hardly fish poppers anymore. Probably my top three
styles are Zonkers, Woolly Buggers and baitfish imitations tied with
Supreme Hair and its various cousins. I like easy things to tie that give
good action and flash when it's called for. I do fish a few crawfish
patterns as well, but I have yet to find one that I was really happy with
and I don't know that any of them caught fish when a WB or a marabou
streamer wouldn't have sufficed.

-Doc

Alaskan420 wrote:
Anyone have favorite flies for bass?

I have been using a small selection of frog styled poppers and would like
to try a wider selection.

Try Zug Bugs -- big ones. I've never used them for bass, but it's a
killer fly for brook trout in stillwaters. The Zug Bug is the stillwater
equivalent of the Prince Nymph: It imitates everything and nothing at
the same time.

I fish them either with a slow-sinking line or under an indicator with a
floating line, depending on the depth.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

[quote=rw]Alaskan420 wrote:[color=blue]
Anyone have favorite flies for bass?

I have had great sucess with a variety of Flat Wing style streamers. I use them in the salt for Stripers but have had luck with Trout, Bass, Northern Pike and Pickerel as well.

These Flies are tied dron an inch to over 16 inches in an endless variety of collors and Patterns.

I have many pictures of these but it seems they are too large to include on the post here.

There is a Fly tying Forum "http://www.stripermoon.com/talkshop2/index.html"

where these flies are shown, as well as so many others.

These work and are fun to tie.