And while you could fill a boatload of fly boxes with all sorts of different patterns, you don’t really ... and they cover the gamut of typical bass forage, including baitfish, frogs, crawfish, and ...

If you’re as amped for bass on the fly as I am, consider spicing up ... but sometimes you just have to go deep, and this crawfish pattern drops like a stone. Once it touches down, the double ...

Put these 25 all-time great fly patterns in your arsenal, and you'll be ready to target almost any gamefish in the river, lake, or sea. The Spring Journal Has Arrived! Get a year of the outdoors ...

A smallmouth bass ... Crayfish are a staple food for smallmouth. Growing up, we called them crawdads, and we would fish them live, or dead drift the tails. The Whitlock Near Nuff Crayfish pattern ...

They invented new fly patterns, equipment ... stalwart patterns like Lefty’s deceiver (invented by Kreh) and the Near-nuff crayfish (Whitlock), which work great on bass and other warm water species.

An experienced bass fisherman of my acquaintance ... bullet weight that keeps the rig ticking bottom. Fly Fishing with crayfish patterns In still water, the Clouser Crayfish can be slowly twitched ...

WINNECONNE - Wisconsin has a long, rich heritage in fly tying ... Bugger to represent sculpin minnows and crayfish found in most trout and smallmouth bass streams. Osthoff has lived in various ...

When nothing hit it, I switched to a crayfish pattern fly that sinks fast and has to be worked along the bottom. Within a few minutes, I was battling a bigger bass in the same stretch of river.

Come fall, a bass’ fancy turns to crayfish. Not that facsimiles of this tasty crustacean won’t catch bass throughout much of the year. But when the leaves turn brown, largemouth and smallmouth ...

Whatever you call them crayfish, crawdads, mudbugs or whatever crawfish are popular with bass. With nearly 400 species nationwide, the crawfish is practically everywhere, and it's a nearly ...

In brown to bronze and rust colors, the 1- to 2-inch Rebel crankbaits resemble an actual crayfish. As it’s retrieved, it swims ‘backward’ in an undulating pattern, further convincing a bass ...