Bass on the fly

[rockroller]

I target bass at least as much as I target trout in Virginia. I have largemouth bass within walking distance of my home and smallmouth between work and home. When targeting bass, I mainly fish for smallmouth. My flies largely overlap.

On top, I like poppers and gurglers (4s and 6s for smallies and 2s for bucketmouths).

But I catch more subsurface with clousers and deceivers and, of course, black woolly buggers.

Here's a nice smallie that took a #2 deceiver intended for stripers:



My guess is that one of the cormorants did a number on the dorsal.

And here's a poor cell phone pic of a bucketmouth that flushed a cup-faced popper:



And oh, by the way, the other warmwater fish you mention, I have taken all of them on the fly rod, too.



One you didn't mention--pickerel, too, are a blast (6-weight and a #2 chartreuse clouser).


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