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    Question 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.

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

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    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.
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    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.

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    Here's four to get you started.



    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.
    Bear742

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    Tequilly streame has work well the past year for me. Or a clouser cray fish
    sandfly/bob
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    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.
    David Merical
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    "Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it"
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    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.

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