Smallmouth flies?

What's your favorite smallmouth flies? I'm asking cause I finally caught a pretty good smallie last summer in the creek that is closest to my house. I was thinking about tying up a few this winter.

thanks in advance,
hNt

Try brown buggers. Hang on & take a deep seat. This next ride's gonna make LSD seem like baby asprin

I caught my biggest smallmouth on a yellow marabou muddler. I've gotten a lot more of them on rubber legged woolly buggers in white,yellow or olive. Tie some with dumbell eyes to get down faster. Gurglers and hair bugs work too.

Clousers worked slowly on the bottom; buggers from gray, brown, olive and black; gray deceivers; leech, black; all work well. I think any of these properly put in front of a smallie will get you a good battle.

Here's four to get you started.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/DSCF0055.jpg

Two go back over 50 years; two weren't even around 10 years ago. The rubber spider needs no intro, I would have one in the box for those unusual days when Smallmouths key in on a hatch. The #4 Stealth Bomber is a multipurpose slider, diver, or popper depending on how you twitch it. The Hairy Fodder variation shown here has an elastic ring that allows changing dumbell eyes to give it the right weight. (There's a rattle in the body too.) Lefty's Red and White is a classic mid-depth fly. This one has brush guards.

Tequilly streame has work well the past year for me. Or a clouser cray fish

I fished a small river last summer when the flow was really low. I caught a smallie on a nymph, one on a Clouser, but it was SLOW. Then I tied on a Popper, and started getting a LOT more fish, starting with the very first cast.

HNT
Check out this thread
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...uld-I-be-tying

and this
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...irrel-crawfish

My favorite smallie fly is a chartreuse wooley bugger. I tie them big. 1/0 3366 mustad hook. Wrapped with 0.030 lead wire. I used to tie them on a size 4 streamer hook but I like the wider hook gap on the 1/0 3366 hook. Better hook ups and less deeply hooked fish. If the smallies are on the smaller side, then you could go with a size 2 3366 hook.

I used a lot of Clousers. I am getting more into poppers and like the gurgler a lot.

IMO all the suggestions are good. I have fished smallies for about 30 years and believe that while colour is important, especially so they can see the fly/lure for the light/water conditions, movement is the most important. My image when fishing for them is that I have to 'call' them, either with surface ripples or underwater flutters/wiggles. When fishing in lakes, casting and retrieving, there are times when I don't get many, but when I get the canoe underway (faster than I was retrieving) with strong paddle strokes, bang I get a fish. So I say use all the above with movement, sometimes faster than you would expect for trout or panfish.

The last time I was tying at the North Akansas Sowbug, Tony Spiezio tied a fly called the Chilli Demmon. Tony claimed that it was a killer on small mouth. Iti will be thrown this year at smallies.

No question....a brown Woolly Booger, sz 8, and 6. The bass probably think it's their favorite food....crawfish.

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Originally Posted by hungNtree

What's your favorite smallmouth flies? I'm asking cause I finally caught a pretty good smallie last summer in the creek that is closest to my house. I was thinking about tying up a few this winter.

thanks in advance,
hNt

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This fly is from a buddy of mine.
Used this fly many times and it is an absolute consistent producer for me.

Joe

http://www.wiprud.com/flies-fishing/flies.htm

Helga Might

(Brian M. Wiprud original pattern) A key aspect is the coloration of black abdomen, olive thorax and brown head.

Ingredients: Hook: #6 Mustaad Streamer 38491 Tail: Root beer Krystal Flash and Brown or bar-dyed marabou. Abdomen: Black polar chenille, palmered large black saddle feather Thorax: Olive Polar Chenille. Head: Brown chenille, medium to large lead eyes (unpainted.) Thread: Brown or Olive

For a closer look at Brian's work, click on an photo to view a larger image.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/imag...ht-1_small.jpg	1. Tie on lead eyes under the shank so hook point will ride up.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/imag...ht-2_small.jpg	2. Tie in marabou tail, flanked each side by four strands of root beer Krystal Flash.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/imag...ht-3_small.jpg	3. At base of marabou, tie in black saddle feather and black pearl braid. Wrap the braid forward to the eyes.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/imag...ht-4_small.jpg	4. Palmer the saddle feather on top, but 1/8" short of the eyes. A glaze of Krazy Glue on the pearl braid will help keep the saddle feather durable during fishing.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/imag...ht-5_small.jpg	5. Behind lead eyes, tie in brown chenille and olive polar chenille. Wrap thorax in Olive chenille.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/imag...ht-6_small.jpg	6. Wrap head/eyes in brown chenille, tie off and you're done.