Flies for clear water and LM Bass

I use to fish Clear Lake a lot. It was where I started to learn that a
bass you can see is one that you won't likely catch. The bass you see
aren't eating but there are others around that are. There was a lot of bass
in the lake and they could be caught on poppers. Big noisy poppers thrown in
the weeds or in the tulies ( weedless or as weedless as they get are the
lures to use.) If you have a boat go quitely into the tulies and try just
dabbling a popper in an opening.
One of my earliest fishing mentors was an old man who lived in Lakeport. He
was in his 80s and taught us lots about catching bass, he taught us to
catch them off the boat docks, next to the swimming holes, lots of places
you would think a bass would run from. He was a spry old guy that everyone
said pitched for some New York team in 1919 or so. There was a bay about
where 9th or 10th street would have run into the lake and we had the
number of the bass in that bay. One thing the old man taugh us was that
there was no such thing as to-small a lure for bass. We ate all of them
back then and when we cleaned then we found they had eaten blue gills,
hitch, other bass, frogs, red wing black birds, and one bat.
Look up doodlesocking and try a variation of it with you fly rod.

"f.blair" wrote in message
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I am fishing on ClearLake in northern CA. The water is fairly clear, but
not crystal clear. You can see LM Bass under the docks and along the
rocks,
but they will not take any type of fly I use.

A lot of bass are caught in the lake with plastic worms of all varieties.

Any advice on a fly to try.

Post back on the net so others can learn.

Thanks,
Fred