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.
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…
I also do not know of a magazine devoted to FF for Bass. I might suggest that you check on the [b]Warm water Forum[/b] 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
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
http://www.amazon.com/Fishing-Smallmouth-Bass-Harry-Murray/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.
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.
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.
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).
fishingnewsman,
There are some great books out on fly fishing, check out this link
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?binding=&mtype=&keyword=fly+fishing+for+bass&hs.x=18&hs.y=15
Larry —sagefisher—
Check out Riversmallies.com and definitely get Harry Murray’s Flyfishing for Smallmouth book. I think it is the BEST one I’ve seen and am suprised no has mentioned it. Both technique and fly types for various situations.
Randall Sale
the Kytroutbum
I have the Harry Murray smallie book. An absolutely fabulous read! Very thorough and well written and its written by, well, one of the best! The Clouser’s Flies book is worthwhile too!
Send a PM to “Buddy Sanders”. He is always willing to help. And he knows more about fly fishing for bass than all the books together. He could write his own book on it…and I think he should.
Jim
I’ve only been flyfishing for a few months, and haven’t even caught a trout yet. What I have caught, aside from some bluegills, is some really nice smallmouth bass who have put up a fight that I wasn’t quite ready for.
In fact, my first fish on a fly was a smallmouth.
As I said, I don’t know of any magazines or books, and have been learning this on my own experience, aside from what I’ve learned here and on a few television shows.
But, that being said, in my limited experience, for river smallmouth, nothing I’ve thrown so far has beaten a popper, the cheaper the better. I’ve had moderate success with the $1.50 for 6 Eagle Claw poppers. The best overall colors, though, have been black, or white, or brown. The poppers with one of those colors as the base color on the body have brought me some success.
I’m still learning, though, and, as I go, I’ll try to post that stuff up here as part of the type of ongoing discussion that makes this board something I check at least once every two days, if not more.
Man, those smallmouth fight, though.:D:D
Thank you all.