I was just wondering what everyone’s favorite bass pattern was. Mine happens to be the Deer Hair Bug.
The sneaky pete is mine. It fishes great with anywhere from a very slight movement to a very aggressive strip/jerk.
Mike
Smallies, #10 brim poppers painted brown with fingernail polish,and furnace hackle tailing.
Largemouth, A sunfish fly I tye with Body fur and prismatic markers.I use that krinkily mono type hair stuff for the tailing…near hair maybe…can’t think of the name at the moment…This one also accounts for 85% of the toothy’s too…
Flashtail Whistler in red/white, chartruese/white or black. Tied with a wire snag guard it can be fished in heavy cover. It can be retrieved fast or slow, fished on a vertical drop, or hopped on the bottom.
Top water: Dahlberg Diver
Subsurface: Clouser
Joe
I’m new here and this is my first post, but I had to respond: a plain 2 inch strip, 1/8 inch wide of rabbit fur on a #6 hook. Works like a champ here in Oklahoma. I just run the hook through the skin which is plenty to keep it on the hook while fishing and casting.
berniepiel
#6 black Wooly Bugger weighted in the front third.
#8 Frog Popper
Clouser Crippled Minnow is my stock answer, but when I saw 'tubers sneaky pete… well that one too.
I’m going to cheat and list two favorites based on the time of the year I’m fishing. For late winter and early spring, my favorite is a black seal fur leach tied on a size 2 streamer hook either lightly weighted or with a red beadhead. For later in the spring, all summer and fall, it is a chartruese over white polar fiber minnow tied on a size 2 hook and tied similar to a baby bunker.
Jim Smith
Seeing as we are talking about favorite and not most effective, for me it has to be a deer hair mouse. I 've had some pretty awesome hits on them.
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Have to agree with Jim Sentell as that is what is working for me as of late also. ( wooley bugger…for me with dumbell eyes, which is forward-weighted and a frog popper.
Blue over White Clouser tied onto a #10 Nymph hook with a small gold dumbell. The Shellcrackers love them too.
Okay, Big Bad Wulff, that’s it…I’ve been threatening to tie a few Woolies with dumbell eyes and just naturally grab the
tungsten wire…
Do you take your hackle all the way to the hook eye or tie it off behind the eyes?
Jim
Deer hair bug also…tied to immi a baitfish or a frog. Either is fine. 8)
That depends on if I’m using a fresh hackle or some left-over short section 
I do both. Kinda depends on how much room I left when I tied in the dumbell. I can’t say which seems to look better but the bass sure like 'em either way 
My favorite bass fly is a 1/0 Gurgle Pop tied with a bucktail and saddle hackle tail to make it 4-6 inches long. I like in three colors Chartreuse/white, white/red and green/orange. 8T :lol:
To me bass fishing is fishing rivers for smallmouth bass!
Chartreuse wooley bugger - size 4- with lead dumbell eyes (unpainted) and yellow rubber legs.
Lefty’s Potomac river popper - size 4
top water Dahlberg Diver or Wiggle Bug. Underwater a black Gill Buster. JGW
Green frog tied on a # 4, #6, 0r #8 depending on where I fishing and what rig I’m using to cast with.
My best producing days have been fishing on lakes with a frog, so it’s an easy choice for me.
Jim and Big Bad Wulff, what colors are you tying your buggers??? I havn’t been able to figure out what to use in the pond I fish, it has completly changed since last year.