05-21-2012, 05:47 AM
I just got back from Powell and I slaughtered the smallmouth on flies. Early morning they took poppers off the surface, which was amazing. The rest of the day they took clouser minnows, big wooly buggers, and crawdad patterns. Obviously, Powell is a different animal, but I've caught a few LMB at Utah Lake this year. Two on a huge brown wooly bugger that I tied up to kinda look like a crayfish, and another one on a FlyGoddess special fly: Olive/yellow/white perch minnow type thing. Caught a crap load of smallmouth on that exact same fly in LP this week before the shore finally ate the fly. That single fly caught 1 LMB and probably 30 smallies. FG is a hell of a tier!
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