Bass Flies – need ideas

[mark s]

I’m getting a brain freeze on good bass fly ideas – I figured I’d start a request for your favorites.

[lee church]

Clouser in 18 different colors for starters.

[dusty montgomery]

Believe it or not, I catch most of my LMB on olive or white Slumbusters.
Dusty

[Cameron Mortenson]

I’m betting those Toad’s that Neal tied would be GREAT for bass in a few different colors.

[Neal Osborn]

Mark,

I have been on a similar kick with Bass Bugs over the last year.

[Neal Osborn]

BTW, great fly pictures Lee.

[Tim Angeli]

Mark,

There are already a lot of great ideas here.

[Rob Snowhite]

the curly tail bunny

rubber tail (i can only find them on bobmarriot, i will try to make them myself from craft store)
lead wrapped shank, dumbell eyes
cross cut rabbit wrapped from tail to eyeball
tie in some rubber legs

i broke off a largemouth on a farm pond in bluemont a few years ago and had a client get a sleigh ride in his float tube using one on the lake in wva.

orvis sold them as a salty stripper fly several years ago

[Neal Osborn]

Those curly tails are a damn fine idea for bass flies!

[bill heffner]

Neal, thanks for all the information.

[mark s]

Thanks everyone – I’m familiar with most of these but I just needed to get the creative juices flowing.

[Shannon Drawe]

As Lefty says, the Seaducer is probably the greatest Bass fly ever. If you can get them to run hook up, even better. shannon

[Grant Wright]

You gotta go with the toad tied w/ rabbit, bead chain eyes, and a mono weed guard.

[Rich Kovars]

Don’t forget Neal’s Braided Worms.

http://www.itinerantangler.com/cgi-bin/board/YaBB.pl?num=1231469068/0#0

[Bob Riggins]

As mentioned by someone else, I like gurglers and Dahlberg divers.  For bass I add rubber legs to my gurglers.  I also like deerhair sliders.  They have a big profile and cause a lot of cavitation in the water.

[lee church]

Lee if you tied that Diver, that thing is almost too nice to fish.

I wish I could take credit!

[Neal Osborn]

Shannon,

[david king]

John Barr’s Meat Whistle!

[Rob Snowhite]

i put in a rubber tail order with my friend in denver, didnt’ think those things would be so hard to find on the internets and in NOVA.

there used to be a popper/slider from here called ‘mr. bobs lucky day’ that were awesome. die injected rubber. they would bounce off rocks or docks etc and never break. the fish tore off the eyes and legs and the’d still catch fish. i have a few tucked away. those fished with a damsel nymph dropper are killer.

[randy ratliff]

Don’t forget the Todd’s Wiggle Minnow. It is deadly, can be used on the surface, just under with sinking tips and on the bottom with full sinks.

It is my go to fly for smallies.

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