Dave Whitlock’s Near Nuff Crayfish pattern nails the look ... is like the Swiss Army knife of flies for smallmouth bass—it ...

A Clouser minnow is a popular white bass fly. A white fly with a little chartreuse, red or gray in the pattern is good. So are white woolly buggers. Stores that sell fly fishing gear will have these.

White and chartreuse Whistles make killer shad patterns. Retrieve them with ... In either case, the erratic behavior of this fly seems to tick bass off as badly as a jerkbait, and on several ...

Whether you’re fishing a farm pond, a small river, a sprawling reservoir, or something in between, you really only need a few different patterns in various colors and sizes to catch bass. The key to ...

“Of course, as fly tiers we like to get crazy and tie some other patterns, but the Clouser is the all-time white-bass fly,” he said. Moncrief likes a size 4 Clouser Minnow. That’s large in ...