so far I have tied up some crawfish, murray’s helgammite, strymphs, cicadas, lizzards; will do some gurglers - what else should I try?
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
my favorites are muddler minnows and clouser minnows. next are poppers, both foam and deer hair. colors depend on water clarity and forage.
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.
scorpios in different colors
Great looking box! I like a bub fly or a bitch creek for smallies.
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.
Clousers, clousers and clousers!! By the way did I mention clousers??
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.
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.
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?
o.k. what is a bub fly, have picture?
I found one here, good video, some good use of a rotary vice- I tied up one, looks like a great helgamite imitation… I dont know if its the same as flygal’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLJid-Ai-EY
Thanks Gigmaster the HHW looks interesting, I found it here
http://flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/103105fotw.php
Purple Eh?
Tim,
In reference to your post :
“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”
Are you referring to a Mickie Finn streamer in yellow over white? I have been tying up a few of these and really like them.
For small stream smallmouth I always carry a marebou muddler minnow, usually in yellow with some red:
YES! That’s a Bub and my good fishing buddy Lousia that is tying it!! I will have to tease her, I had not seen this. LOL!
Tell her I had a Aha! (or maybe a Duh!) moment when I saw her use the half hitch before using the rotary function - I had just been re-winding the thread as I went along, the little tie on the thread makes it a lot easier…
Don’t you love those epiphany moments in tying that make things sooo much easer?! Anywho, the bub is a great smallie fly and Lou and I have had quite a few ripped to shreds fishing Big Sugar Creek in MO. Love those “K-I-S-S” flies with 3 ingredients or less that catch fish like crazy!
Was that just regular rubber leg material? It sure had a lot of bounce to it.