Smallie flies
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Rick,
The vast majority of my smallie fishing is in lakes, where I have my best success on black leech patterns.
foam popper with damsel nymph dropper.
i don’t fish enough streamers for smallies. def need to change that practice.
Interesting, I’m just about to leave for a road-trip to Pepacton Reservoir in the Catskills for smallmouth.
Pine Squirrels make a very good smallie streamer. The action seems to drive them wild. I also tie a crawfish out of squirrel and it has been good so far, still a little tweaking maybe.
A worm pattern is usually good. I know, it mimics fishing plastic worms and that really bothers me, but I still fish it sometimes. If that’s all they will take then I’m gonna fish it. You can fish then like a carolina rig or a senko. Or a conventional stick bait, that get’s pretty fun.
Almost all of my smallie fishing is done on top. I usually only revert to the others during the colder months or when the fear of a bad skunking starts to appear. Poppers, sliders, gurglers…….all of them work, its just what you like.
And yes they like frogs. A lot. I’ve been using a slider head colored up like the locals with rubber front legs and use pine squirrel strips for the back legs. They really like those.
I love fly fishing for smallmouth. Live about 45 minutes from Taneycomo and don’t even possess a trount stamp at the moment.
Clouser minnows, clouser crayfish & hellgramite dead drifted, floating minnow, crystal bugger in crayfish colors, poppers.
http://www.flyfishga.com/stealth.htm
I like these a lot. You can go as big as 2/0 also
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