Smallie - In my experience "assortments" are rarely very good. You don't know the sizes involved and/or have no choice in the matter. There's a vast difference in the size flies you want for "creek bass" and the Susky River in Pa!

I fished for smallies from 9AM to Noon today - caught a total of 14 fish and all on two flies. The flies were a wet spider with long leggy legs and a BLT. Also caught several rock bass. Actually the woolly bugger is a really good place to start. Buy your poppers - IMHO it's rarely cost effective to try to make them [exception: foam bugs]. Buy/tie some hairy nymphs in size 10 or 8 [hares ears, red squirrel nymph, etc]. I'll bet you can find both of them on the Fly Tying portion of this board.

It's not really about the # of patterns you carry but presenting those you have effectively.

The price also seems to be very high to me.

Just my $.02 worth.

Tite lines.

Donald