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

[Flygal]

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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?

Great looking box! I like a bub fly or a bitch creek for smallies.

[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]

It looks like you got it covered. I might add a few smaller Hard-Hackle Worms in purple, and maybe a smaller purple Bunny Leech. Another really good SM fly is a Clouser Minnow tied in brown and orange.

[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.