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Some Tips Catching Smallmouth Bass with Flies
One of my favorite things in the world is bass fly fishing. There's nothing quite like watching a bass attack a fly floating on the water at close range. Not to mention the thrill of watching a smallmouth bass do its tail dance across the surface as it tries to throw your hook, and the strength and fight in those smallies.
That's why bass fly fishing, especially for smallmouths, is one of the greater, more fun challenges to freshwater anglers. But battling the pound-for-pound fighting champ isn't easy. Before you get to battle the champion bass, you've got to get him on your hook.
Here are some tips on locating smallmouth bass:
• Smallies have a different idea of 'cover'. Unlike their bigmouth brothers, who never met a weed patch, dock or tree trunk they didn't like, smallmouth bass typically avoid such object. Instead, smallies look steep drop-offs where they can run to deep water 'cover'.
• Based on the above, try and locate smallmouths at rocky ledges and steep inclines that get deep quickly.
• Smaller plastic worms, Mepps spinners (not weedless), jigs and flies are the top smallmouth bass lures. Smallies like smaller bait than their big brothers.
• Unlike a lazy largemouth that will often hit something put in front of it properly if it's not hungry, smallmouths that aren't actively feeding are more difficult to catch.
• While largemouths like murky, dark weedy water, smallmouths like clear water.
• But don't mistake bright sunny locations with clear water.
• Smallies tend to school up with other bass in the same size range, so find one, and you might be in for some hot action.
Smallmouth bass fly fishing will test the upper limits of your skills, not to mention patience. Following is a list of the best smallmouth flies, in no particular order. Don't mistake these for a magic bullet, as they will still require a lot of precision casting and presentation skills.
Smallmouth Bass Fly Fishing's Top Eight Flies (in no particular order)
1. Sneaky Pete - size 4
2. Zonkers - size 4
3. Stonefly Bugger - size 6
4. Franke Hellgrammite - size 4
5. Bead Head Wooly Bugger- size 6 - Love the name!
6. Clouser Minnow - size 6
7. Popper - size 6 - Really can get the smallies excited, and it's good far largemouths as well
8. Crayfish - size 8 - My personal favorite bass fishing fly, especially in rocky riverbeds and shallows
The best time of year to fly fish for smallmouths is no doubt the spring. The main reason for this is the smallmouth's preference for more cooler water than the largemouth. In the spring the shallows warm up from freezing temperatures faster, and the smallies come in close, both to the shore and to the surface, where you can get them on a fly. Once the surface temperatures get too warm in the early summer, the smallies go down deep, making it much more difficult to catch them.
So, as spring approaches, get your fly fishing gear ready and go catch some smallmouth bass!
About the Author
The author is an avid bass fisherman with over 30 years of experience, and a guest contributor at http://www.probassfishingsecrets.com/bass-fly-fishing/. Visit the following link for more great bass fishing tips, such as the best bass fishing fly, and many other bass fishing resources.
Which Bass techniques for fishing plastics in the weeds?
My issue is that I want to expand into Largemouth fishing with jigs, Texas-rigged worms with bullet weights as examples. So far, all I end up doing is getting hung up. Is is that I should apply these techniques to different water or ...? I am not pitching or flipping right now (as I dont really know how to do that) but I am open to any technique that will make it so that I dont get hug up as often. I am fishing on a lake that has alot of coontail weeds and I am usually in 5-15ft. There are some shallow areas with sparse clumps of coontail as well some thin grass where it gets really shallow along with some lily pads. Any help on where/how I should be focusing my efforts would be appreciated.
Use heavy line preferably braid. Use a heavy action rod. I would a texas rig but peg off the sinker so it falls through the weeds easier. Use a 2/0 or 3/0 worm hook. You may even want to superglue your knot so it doesn't slip. Try flipping into the small pockets of the weeds. Most of the time this is an ambush point for a bass any way. I would try a smaller worm like a 5 or 7 inch first. before throwing a 10 inch or lager worm also. I would also try a small profile bait because they fall extremely easy through the weeds. Try a power craw or a small creature bait. I hope this helps you out.
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