Largemouth Flies

[jkilroy]

What's everyones favorite Largemouth flies for this time of the year?

[Chris Jacobs]

I use a mouse pattern for largemouths, they go bananas over it!! Especially from my float tube, casted into the bank, twitch a couple of times and let it sit, wait for the explosion!

[Jim Hatch]

Hi Kilroy,

I like pencil poppers tied on #6 and
#4 crappie hooks. Plenty of splash to get
their attention but pretty easy to cast.



Warm regards, Jim

If anyone is interested, there is a fly tying series on FAOL, that show the basic steps to tying poppers. The work was done By Randy Fratzke (FRITZ FRATZ)!

[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/panfish/part91.html:90eff]Poppers 101, Part 1[/url:90eff]
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/panfish/part92.html:90eff]Poppers 101, Part 2[/url:90eff]
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/panfish/part93.html:90eff]Poppers 101, Part 3[/url:90eff]
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/panfish/part95.html:90eff]Poppers 101, Part 4[/url:90eff]
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/panfish/part96.html:90eff]Poppers 101, Part 5[/url:90eff]

[Coach Robb]

I'm having really good luck with black,white and especially chartreuse wooly buggers. It seems if I want to attract BG's switching to a wooly worm works. Maybe the BG's are short striking on the marabou tail on the buggers?

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"Illegitimus nil Carborundum"

[okflyfisher]

We occasionally use poppers early or late in the day, but primarily use 2 subsurface flies: a variation of a leadeye leech that I call a slippery rabbit, and my version of a crayfish fly. Both of these flies are weedless , but the slippery rabbit slides through the worse cover imaginable without getting hung up and is a great fish getter. The crayfish fly will catch fish when nothing else will and will slip through most cover.

[Brad Williamson]

Okie,

I'm finding a similar pattern of poppers working at dark and subsurface the rest of the time. Could you post a picture of the flies you're recommending? (You knew that was coming, didn't you.) I figured that if they work in OK that it surely must in KS as well.

BW

[This message has been edited by Brad Williamson (edited 13 June 2006).]

[dixieangler]

Right now at this time of year in Florida, we have been doing pretty good with Crease flies (or pencil poppers) and large yellow poppers on the surface for LMB (this is on canals, not on the lakes).

Nice pencil poppers, Jim. Are those Dremel foam poppers? Alberto coming at you. Not too bad of a storm. Lot of rain already here but we needed it.


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Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL

"Flip a fly"

[RickB]

I like any kind of poppers on the surface and clousers for underneath.

Slippery Rabbit, sounds like it needs to be a FOTW. While you're at it you could do the Crayfish too.

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Fish more, work less!

[Jed]

Coach Robb said
"I'm having really good luck with black,white and especially chartreuse wooly buggers"

I had to laugh because I can use this answer with almost every fishery I fish.

Here is my question:
What type of fish do Wolly Buggers not work on?

Any one use them on Stripers or in the Salt?
How about needle fish?
jed