smallmouth bass

"Skwala" wrote in message
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I just discovered that the lower reaches of the river I live in has good
populations of small mouth bass.

I suppose my steelhead gear should work for them, but what about patterns?

Anyone have any favorites?

Try Clousers; squirrel tail for Crawfish pattern and the good old chartreuse
and white. If they are hitting on the surface, anything noisy seems to work
(poppers, sliders, big gurglers). For hellgrammite pattern my choice is
usually bunny buggers or wooly buggers in black or brown. I also use brown
and olive bunny buggers for crawfish imitation with dumbbell eyes added;
white and black versions also seem to be a decent minnow pattern.

Mark