What's Your Favorite Fly For...

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"?

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:12:48 GMT, "Hooked" wrote:

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"?

I fish for smallies quite a bit after June. Dahlberg Divers on top and
Koch's Lampreys on the bottom. A Koch's Lamprey is a lead eyed bunny
leech with a band of red dubbing behind the eyes that supposedly
imitates the gills of the brook lamprey, a small lamprey native to
midwestern streams. I also use a lot of wooly buggers and some
clousers.


g.c.

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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I fish for smallies quite a bit after June. Dahlberg Divers on top and
Koch's Lampreys on the bottom. A Koch's Lamprey is a lead eyed bunny
leech with a band of red dubbing behind the eyes that supposedly
imitates the gills of the brook lamprey, a small lamprey native to
midwestern streams. I also use a lot of wooly buggers and some
clousers.


George, you live up in Merrill right? I've never heard of these lampreys in
the streams around here. Got any URLs leading to info on these? How about
that "Koch's Lamprey?"

Black/grizzly wooly buggers and chartreuse/white clousers work best for
me.(I just tied up some clousers with bead chain eyes, trying to make a few
lighter than the lead standard which sink too quick in shallow water.) A
few odd nymphs also work.

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 01:29:26 GMT, "Hooked" wrote:

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
.. .

I fish for smallies quite a bit after June. Dahlberg Divers on top and
Koch's Lampreys on the bottom. A Koch's Lamprey is a lead eyed bunny
leech with a band of red dubbing behind the eyes that supposedly
imitates the gills of the brook lamprey, a small lamprey native to
midwestern streams. I also use a lot of wooly buggers and some
clousers.


George, you live up in Merrill right? I've never heard of these lampreys in
the streams around here. Got any URLs leading to info on these? How about
that "Koch's Lamprey?"

Black/grizzly wooly buggers and chartreuse/white clousers work best for
me.(I just tied up some clousers with bead chain eyes, trying to make a few
lighter than the lead standard which sink too quick in shallow water.) A
few odd nymphs also work.



Here's a link to the native lampreys in Wisconsin.

http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/seiche/mar.02/art03.html


The Koch's Lamprey is a local tie. Simple to make. It has a 3" zonker
type tail tied over a matching dubbed body. At the front of the hook
you tie in a pair of lead dumbell eyes. Tand then dub in a band of red
right behind them to represent the gills. The zonker strip is tied at
the front of the hook and then pulled over the dubbed body and
attached again where the hook bend starts.


g.c.

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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Here's a link to the native lampreys in Wisconsin.

http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/seiche/mar.02/art03.html


The Koch's Lamprey is a local tie. Simple to make. It has a 3" zonker
type tail tied over a matching dubbed body. At the front of the hook
you tie in a pair of lead dumbell eyes. Tand then dub in a band of red
right behind them to represent the gills. The zonker strip is tied at
the front of the hook and then pulled over the dubbed body and
attached again where the hook bend starts.

Thanks George. I never would have known about these critters 'till you
mentioned it.

Still haven't seen any. Probably never will either. But now that I know they
exist, I'll be able to keep an eye open for them.

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:49:28 GMT, "Hooked" wrote:

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
.. .

Here's a link to the native lampreys in Wisconsin.

http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/seiche/mar.02/art03.html


The Koch's Lamprey is a local tie. Simple to make. It has a 3" zonker
type tail tied over a matching dubbed body. At the front of the hook
you tie in a pair of lead dumbell eyes. Tand then dub in a band of red
right behind them to represent the gills. The zonker strip is tied at
the front of the hook and then pulled over the dubbed body and
attached again where the hook bend starts.

Thanks George. I never would have known about these critters 'till you
mentioned it.

Still haven't seen any. Probably never will either. But now that I know they
exist, I'll be able to keep an eye open for them.

If you look, I bet you'll see them. They're pretty common in the upper
midwest The first time I saw them was when I was a kid. I grew up on a
farm on the Black river in central Wisconsin and spent as much time
fishing and hunting as was possible. One day in the summer I was
wading down stream and saw what a thought was a shredded rag caught on
someting on the bottom (Today I'd assume it was a plastic garbage
bag.) On closer exmination it turned out to be a swarm of small
lampreys. They cluster together when they spawn. It yucked me out at
the time in extremis. By the way, they die after spawning and the
Lamprey fly does not work nearly as well after the middle of July.


g.c.

"Hooked" wrote in message
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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"?

Foxee Red Clouser Minnow - an excellent imitation of a fleeing soft craw or
small sculpin.

Joe C.
http://www.theohiosmallmouthalliance.org

for smallmouth bass and what is your favorite fly for catching the
"gamest
fish that swims"?

Foxee Red Clouser Minnow - an excellent imitation of a fleeing soft craw
or
small sculpin.

Joe C.

Joe, would you mind posting the colors etc for that?

wayne

Why are most crawfish patterns generally tied in orange? Except for
cooked ones, all the crawfish I've seen are primarilly greenish,
brownish, and grayish in color.

Maybe the fish like them cooked too?

Willi

"Willi" wrote in message
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Why are most crawfish patterns generally tied in orange? Except for
cooked ones, all the crawfish I've seen are primarilly greenish,
brownish, and grayish in color.


There are some crayfish (note Northern spelling) that are reddish when live.
Here's an example:
http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/htdocs2/htdocs2/crawfish.jpg . Some of the ones
I see in Mass have a lot of orange with a background of brownish-green.
--
Stan Gula