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 ...

Dave Whitlock’s Near Nuff Crayfish Smallmouth bass and crayfish go hand ... It’s a classic pattern that’s earned its spot in my fly box time and time again. The Clouser Minnow is like ...

These days, it’s seen as a versatile and deadly generic pattern that can represent anything from a crayfish to ... become a staple for fly anglers chasing largemouth bass and pike.

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 ...

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 ...

Smallmouth bass are brutes ... they also eat plenty of baitfish and crayfish below the surface, which are matched with heavier flies than those that float. With that in mind, the best all-around ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...