Favorite smallies flies - what should I be tying

[pillcaster]

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so far I have tied up some crawfish, murray's helgammite, strymphs, cicadas, lizzards; will do some gurglers - what else should I try?

[scubatim]

I must say that by far the most productive fly for smallmouth on The Kankakee River my favorite fishing hole is a yellow over white bucktail nothing fancy but it out fishes everything else I throw

[jeremy.badgett]

my favorites are muddler minnows and clouser minnows. next are poppers, both foam and deer hair. colors depend on water clarity and forage.

[turvy]

the streams i fish as fast-running so I use them weighted. Clousers and wolly buggers of varying colors are my go-to flies. Gray, brown and green are the colors and that changes on a regular basis depending on whatever trips their trigger at the time. Another productive clouser uses red squirrel tail.

[Normand]

scorpios in different colors

[Uncle Jesse]

I must say that by far the most productive fly for smallmouth on The Kankakee River my favorite fishing hole is a yellow over white bucktail nothing fancy but it out fishes everything else I throw

You don't happen to have a photo or a recipe for that do you, "yellow over white bucktail" is a little general in the description.

[Tig]

Clousers, clousers and clousers!! By the way did I mention clousers??

[Gigmaster]

I think what he means is just to wrap a streamer hook shank with white thread, floss, or maybe tinsel, or maybe a tinsel rib over white thread, then just tie on a bit of white bucktail, then a sparse clump of yellow, whip finish, apply a drop of head cement, and go fish with it. Real easy and quick.

Probably something like this:



OK, the eyes were my idea, just because I like them on streamers. You can leave them off. I just tied this one. It took me less than 3 minutes from start to finish. Easy tie.

You don't happen to have a photo or a recipe for that do you, "yellow over white bucktail" is a little general in the description.

[jeremy.badgett]

Normand, your scorpio pattern, is it marabou the whole way from head to toe or is the body covered with something else? it looks like possible small larva lace, and did you use sparkle chenille for the over eye material?

[Normand]

Normand, your scorpio pattern, is it marabou the whole way from head to toe or is the body covered with something else? it looks like possible small larva lace, and did you use sparkle chenille for the over eye material?

heres where the scorpios come from

http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/smallmouth_jump/