Smallmouth Flies

[mrd]

What is your favorite Smallie fly????

Mine is still a deer hair Mouse or a Frog.

Best Fishes Mike

[MikeG]

Murray's Heavy Hellgrammite

Shenandoah Blue Popper

Brown crayfish patterns

[skiezo]

Sparkle minnow
Sparkle minnow cuarly tail grub
Wiggle minnow
Black BH wooly bugger with yellow or orange
Hard foam poppers.
Plus a few salt water ties.

Brian

[Rip Tide]

The Clouser crippled minnow (not the deep minnow) is number one for me ... it's just fun to fish

My most productive is a beadhead 'bugger

With smallies I like to match the water clarity rather than match the hatch
Colors like brown, gold, orange, chartruce in stained water
Bright colors like yellow, white, silver in clear

[BigCliff]

Clousers, generally small and sparsely tied, but with plenty of flash.

Also had good luck on conehead matuka zonker/kiwi zuddler type flies for larger smallies.

[jcl]

Olive woolly bugger is a confidence pattern for me, but I often throw a popper first. Clousers work well for me.

I just got Clouser's Flies for V-Day, so I'm looking forward to tying up a bunch of new patterns to try out this summer.

[nearnuff]

I would not go out without a "Sneeky Pete" slider. I use different flies some named in the thread but that is my fav. for big fish as well. It is the only fly I cannot tie that gives me the same results so I buy them. It's worth it!

[BlueDun]

Sneaky Pete's on top and white marabou clousers for below.

[dshort]

Murray's Heavy Hellgrammite

Shenandoah Blue Popper

Brown crayfish patterns
02-17-2009 08:22 PM

We must be from the same neck of the woods. Shenandoah blue popper is hard to beat as far as fun goes. I also like Murray's Marauders, especially the pearl variety.

[MikeG]

I am from Chicago IL, so unless you are from the wind city.....than no we are not from the same neck of woods. But I bought a small mouth video by Murray.