Bass on rabbit leeches.

[Guest]

I just wanted to let ya'll know that I caught 4 Largemouth bass on my olive rabbit leeches with lead eyes that I had tied. They were only about 8-10" long but our bass here in Colorado don't really get big. But it sure was fun. They wouldn't hit any other colored ones. I tried black, purple, and red ones. But the only ones that got hits were olive ones. It was pretty cool. Thanks for listenin'.

 

Jim

[lanvaettir 0]

Nice. Where were you fishing?

[Guest]

Sorry about that. Brush Hollow Res. at Penrose Colorado.

[Guest]

I have heard alot of reports of guys catching Bass on the same exact flies but the colors seem to vary. I had luck with white ones a few weeks back, the only thing they would hit. Guy on another board said that he only found luck with chartruese and no other color. Very interesting.

[Guest]

Fish are like women. We will never figure them out, yet we will continue trying to..lol

[lanvaettir 0]

I remember that back in my California bass fishing days "motor oil" was the best color for plastic worms and chartreuse was a good color for spinners. Whenever I fished a fly for bass I did best with mouse patterns and poppers on top and crawfish patterns in the shallows.

[Guest]

This area I was fishing was no deeper than 6 ft. I'm not sure if that would be classified as shallow or not. But it worked. After I lost that fly (which was the only one I had of that) I tried other flies and colors and not even a bite on those other ones...

[lanvaettir 0]

That's a great depth for a crawfish pattern if you have a bank. Just cast to the bank and then strip it in like its trying to move to deeper water(or the opposite for that matter). You might need to use a big bullet weight to keep it deep but I bet you get results (If you have crawfish in the lake that is). We used to get an occasional channel cat on the same rig. Pretty fun on a 5 weight!

[Guest]

We have a few crawdads here. Any suggestions on a simple yet productive pattern? I have never tied one before.

 

Thanks

Jim

[Guest]

Here is my most successful crawdad patterns and if you like rabbit strip leeches you will love this thing. Here is a link to the fly in the database: http://flytyingforum.com/index.php?act=flyshow&showid=407

 

[lanvaettir 0]

They are pretty easy to tie. Northern outdoorsman, Smallie hunter and steeldrifter all have nice patterns on this site's database. I used to put a heavy lead conehead on a #1-2 streamer hook tied upside down with a wooly bugger body and rabbit strip "claws". Mine were simpler than the ones in the database. The only thing I noticed is that they work better if they are a little pinker than the crawfish you normally see. I always assumed that they looked like they had just molted and were an even softer target.

[Steeldrifter 0]

Congrates jim sounds like you enjoyed yourself crawdads are the staple of the bass diet. I admit that all my bass fishing to date has been with LIVE crawdads but i intend to fling some flies to them this summer for the first time.

 

SHUT UP WILL!

[Guest]

Last year I fished for bass with live minnows and did very well in this same res. I am trying for everything on flies this summer. Hey Will what do you think of your crawdad in a olive color? I don't have any orange material. In fact I am looking for some type of felt. Don't know if I have any or not.

 

Thanks

Jim

[Guest]

Oh yea Olive should work quite well and it seems that my local crawls get more olive as the year goes. The last I seen them in my area some had some really bright orange tipped claws.