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December 28th, 2008

Wooly Bugger

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Smallmouth Bass Facts – Great Tips To Catch Them

This fish is widely known as the hardest fighting fish, pound for pound, that swims in freshwater, and for good reason. If you’ve never had the pleasure of hooking into a three to five pound Smallmouth Bass, put it on the top of your list. Hooking into a Smallmouth this size is as much fun as can be had with your clothes on. For the purposes of this article I’m going to discuss some fishing tips that are helpful when fishing for Smallmouth Bass in the moving water of rivers and streams.

Prior to embarking on your smallmouth fishing expedition it’s better that you first understand their characteristics, smallmouth bass are customarily bronze to brownish green in color. It has dark vertical bars on the sides. Unlike the largemouth, the upper jaw of a smallmouth does not just extend beyond the rear margin of its eye. The eye of the smallmouth is reddish in color. It contains 13 to 15 rays of soft dorsal fin. It’s length extent from 12 to 22 inches. And it usually weights 8 ounces to 7 pounds.

Below are some guidelines on how to get significant catch of the smallmouth bass:

* Smallmouth are better caught in the rock edge that drops off first from about 6 to 12 feet.
* Suppose you are fishing for the smallmouth in northeast, especially in Maryland, you’ll discover that smallmouth does not stick much to cover their presence. This is apparent in some of the relaxed water reservoir. Smallmouth relates more to an abrupt change in depth when they seek cover.
* if you trap a smallmouth that’s above four to five pounds, try to swim along with them and make your presence not noticeable.

The second tip I have for fishing for Smallmouth bass in the flowing water of a river or stream is to always present your bait in a natural manner. For example, a live worm should look like a live worm, not like a “worm ball”. And what does a live worm look like? It looks like a worm, outstretched, the way God intended. And what’s the best way to present a live worm outstretched, the way God intended? Through the use of a set of gang hooks. Gang hooks allow you to present live worms outstretched and naturally, which increase the amount of bites and hook-ups that you receive, it’s as simple as that.

The following list shows some of the best water flies you can use to catch a smallmouth bass:

a) The Stonefly Bugger – size 6
b) The Bead Head Wooly Bugger- size 6
c) The Sneaky Pete – Size 4
d) The Clouser Minnow – size 6

Smallmouth tend to be more active I cold water, that makes early spring the perfect time for fishing.The way to set up your rig is this: begin by grabbing the end of your line and attaching a small barrel swivel (size 10 or 12). Now attach a pre-tied set of gang hooks to the opposite end of the barrel swivel. The goal is to have your offering bounce off the bottom, as it flows naturally with the current, so add a couple of split shot sinkers to your line above your barrel swivel for weight. The number of split shot will vary with the current flow, so this is a judgment call. Experimentation is the key to getting the proper amount of weight. Once the proper number of split shot is achieved, your offering will “bounce” along the bottom as it flows downstream. Telling the difference between bottom and a bite is easy with a little practice. The last thing you need to do is add a live worm to your set of gang hooks (if you happen to be using night crawlers, simply pinch them in ).

If you use the rig explained above, you will begin catching more Smallmouth Bass. These fishing tips aren’t at all complicated, as a matter of fact they’re simple, but that doesn’t make them any less effective. I’ve been fishing for Smallmouth Bass using both of these tips for many years with almost amazing success. Never forget what Steven Wright said of us anglers, “There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot.” I couldn’t agree more, and these simple tips will help you avoid the ‘looking like an idiot’ part of that quote.

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Fly to use for the upcoming trout season?

Hey this spring I will be fishing the cowichan river for some rainbow, a few brown and cutthroat trout, and i want to know what Fly Patterns i should tie up to catch em. I know all about trout, just not the fly fishing part so what would you recommend, i was thinking some small and a few large Woolly Buggers, an egg suckling leech, some adams or Parachute Adams, maybe some pheasants nymphs, any other suggestions or any sizes i should use? Thanks ahead of time
all spring hah starting in mid feb and forever on after

Well, “this spring” covers a lot of time. For fly anglers, spring starts around the end of February and continues through June. Heh heh. Knowing a month you’re planning to fish would help a lot, but…

I’ve Never Fished the Cowichan but I’m almost sure you’ll see large leeches and Rainbow Trout eggs in the water early in the spring, so I’d definitely tie eggs, leeches, and egg-sucking leeches. Rainbow eggs start out reddish and turn pale pink. Having a good selection of sizes and shades will help you dial in on the most effective combination.

There will be mayfly hatches throughout the spring. Western march browns are important mayflies in the northwest, so you’ll want to find out when/where WMBs hatches occur and how to fish them. I would think other smaller and less conspicuous mayflies will hatch starting around March and continuing through the summer and into fall, and these can likely be imitated with the usual PMD and BWO, and Parachute Adams in sizes 12 down to as small as you can manage (20s). However, local advice will probably result in some local patterns. NOTHING is better than local intel.

Stoneflies will probably be important and very fishable on that river in March through maybe late April (don’t quote me on that), but you will almost have to have local advice to fish them effectively. There are a number of “generic” stonefly patterns (Goldenstone, Stimulator, etc.), but you’ll want to know the locally preferred patterns — variations in color and size from region to region can mean a lot. Stonefly hatches can be tough to understand and sometimes they only last a week or so, but they can be shockingly productive. In some waterways, trout get up to half their protein for the year from certain stonefly hatches.

Caddisflies will likewise be your good friend — a fickle friend, but a friend to be sure. Ordinary Elk Hare Caddis patterns with various body and hackle colors will probably work fine from about Arpil into early summer, but local refinements in color and size will, again, catch you more fish. There may be more caddisfly action even than that, but a good selection of Elk Hare Caddis (with corresponding emergers, like an X-Caddis) will get you started.

You should never be without Woolly Buggers, no matter where or when you’re fishing, so, yes, tie up a bunch in various shades and sizes. I’m partial to olive and black with a bit of flash and beadheads or weighted bodies, but I’ve been told to stop using weighted Buggers because they move more appetizingly when they’re unweighted. Up to you.

Nymphs — yeah, tie as many nymphs as you know how to. I’ve always got some Hare’s Ear Nymphs, Pheasant Tails, and Prince Nymphs. These seem to be suggestive of the basic range of subsurface nymph forage in any given waterway. But once more, you may find that there is some wacky purple or white or red thing in the water that you can imitate with a nymph, so get that local advice.

Hope you have fun and catch a few. Good luck!