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.

"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

Clouser Minnow. Actually I have been to his shop on a few occasions
in Middleton, PA - nicest man you'd ever want to meet.

Dick

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"?

"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"?


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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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

"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.

"Mark W. Oots" mark_ctc@(delete this)ameritech.net wrote in message
om...

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.



Red fox clousers. Is that the same as the Foxee red clouser Cornmuse
referred to? Got a pattern for them?

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

"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.



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.

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



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"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"?


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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