smallie

[rubicon31]

Ok Let's have them

Top Ten Smally Flies and feel free to attach the recipes if you like

[Gavin]

1. Sparkleminnow

2. Gaines Sneaky Pete

3. Shenk's Minnow

4. Wooly Bugger

5. Gaines Dixie Devil

[Danoinark]

1. Any of Jack Plotts foam poppers or morsels

2. Wooly Buggers

3. Gitzit

4. Crease Fly

5. Sneaky Pete

[WebFreeman]

what's a gitzit, aside from the tube jig variety, which I would guess would be pretty hard to cast on my fly rod.

[Danoinark]

This was posted on another forum by a member that I can't recall. Its one of my favorite smallie flies.

How to Tie the Gitzit

Ok guys . . . I learned to tie the gitzit from White River Angler in Fayetteville. McLellens probably also sells it I would imagine.

Hook: mustad 3366 #4

tail: marabou

body: crystal chenille

eyes: dumbbell clouser like

legs: some rubber legs tied on the eyes. Loop a couple strand of rubber leg material around the lead eye holding them towards the tail. tie on by wrapping thread around legs and hook right behind the fly. The affect is that the legs point somewhat back and out. It's easier to do than explain . . .

I think of it like a crawdad imitation. They work well in rust brown and olive.

[rubicon31]

how bout the sneaky pete?

never heard of that

guess i am out of the loop

love to smallmouth fish, but new to it with a fly rod

[Micheal Kyle]

Here is my selection that produces for me on a regular basis, on all of the Smallmouth waters that I have fished, whether be it a lake or river.

Jim's Ozark's Spider

Jim's Bushwhacker

Jim's Hell of a gramite

Freeman's Slider

Freeman's Juiced Hopper

Fox's Mud Bug

Whitlock's Hair Grub modified

Whitlock's Near Nuff Crawfish

Whitlock's B/H Rubber Leg Fox Squirrel Nymph

Joe's Pine Squirrel Crawfish

jim

[King Ming]

It is good to see such a decent topic on the forum, and the best part is, that it is not about stupid, slimy trout. And that is good, because it just leaves that many more uncrowded places to fish for these Bronze Beauties.

So with that said, here is a list of some of my favorite flies for the true Brown of the Ozarks:

Foamy Frog

Slippen Slider

Rubbery West Hell Crawfish

Hairy Mary

Mohairy Worm

Haystack

Whitlock's Eel Worm Streamer

Whitlock's Sheep Shad

Chick-A-Bou Crawfish

Rag Sculpin

Hey Jim, I hope you don't mind me listing a couple of your patterns here and like the names I call them by. Also, I heard that Rainy's is going to be producing a couple of your flies. When are they going to be available?

King Ming