Info please

[fishingnewsman]

Maybe some of you folks can help me out. I have put out this request on my local boards here north of the border and got nothing but flack. Does anyone know of a good fly fishing magazine that has a focus on bass. I am a serious angler and fly fishing instructor; having mastered trout and salmon (well as close as one can hope to) I now wish to devote some serious study toward bass. No superficial stuff please.

[WarrenP]

I know of no bass fly fishing magazines, but, you can look at smallmouthangler.com and he does have a book that can be purchased that is very good.

Sorry I could not be of more help....

[Denny]

I also do not know of a magazine devoted to FF for Bass. I might suggest that you check on the Warm water Forum here on our BB. There are many dedicated Bass fishermen that use this one. Perhaps you can get more info from one of them.

Denny

[Martin McFly]

Hello,
I also looked for a magazine or book on fly fishing for bass but I couldn't find much, the only place where I was able to find info was the web, google bass bugs and such. The warm water forum is a good source as well.
Good luck

[brhoff]

http://www.amazon.com/Fishing-Smallm.../dp/1558215344

There are MANY books on Smallmouth Bass Flyfishing...

I have read many of them, Holshag's book is one of the better ones.

Clouser, and Lefty (maybe not?) have offerings as well.

If your local lilbrary has a search function, type in SmallMouth Flyfishing and borrow them if that suites your style...while the books are helpful, I have found none really worth owning.

Seems Smallies hit on the surface, on the film or below the surface and sometimes dragging botom.

[bobbyg]

You might visit here and see if you can learn......

http://www.thebasspond.com/

bobbyg

[Chuck S]

By the time you read through the warmwater articles here on bass and others species, read about the flys for the species, etc--there's not a lot left to cover. There was a Warmwater magazine but it folded and there are general Bass publications but they give very little towards fly fishing. Get anything Dave Whitlock has written about Bass, McLaine, Dalrymple, Lucas and Sosin to name a few and you'll have it covered. I pick up Bass Fly Fishing books from Ebay all the time for about a magazines cost and there's no repulsive ads to wade through.

[Uncle Jesse]

There are 3 or 4 basic types of bass lures; plastic (worms, grubs, tubes) crankbaits; spinnerbaits, jigs. Figure out how to translate those into flies. There are some patterns that translate pretty well other more of a challenge (streamer = crankbait?)

If you come up with an answer to a Rattletrap let me know, I did pretty well with the green fire tiger in that.

Getting deep enough will be the real challenge when it hot or cold I think at some lakes, I have caught bass out of 20 - 30 ft. of water on spinning and casting tackle.

Good luck.

[waltryan]

Try to find a copy of "Flies for Bass & Panfish" by Dick Stewart & Farrow Allen, ISBN 0-936644-10-9 (hardcover) or 0-936644-11-7 (softcover).

[sagefisher]

fishingnewsman,

There are some great books out on fly fishing, check out this link

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?bi...s.x=18&hs.y=15


Larry ---sagefisher---