I need a good fly for fishing bass

Question

its on a shallow, weedy lake and i hope to catch some bass and maybe a northern or two. any help would be great. ill be casting over some weed lines and rock piles about 4 to 6 feet deep.

Answer 1

If you haven't tried one yet, give the Dahlberg Diver (also called the "Diving Bug") a shot.  What Larry Dahlberg did was reconfigure the shape of the spun hair head on the standard "bass hair bug" so that the fly dives when the line is pulled sharply.  Following the short dive, the fly then rises in the surface column (when fished with a sinking line) or floats back to the surface itself (when fished with a floater).  This action works very well for attracting bass and other predatory gamefish.

Dahlberg's new design is now known in forms other than the original Diving Bug.  Using a similarly spun and shaped hair head, you will find the Diving Minnow, Mega-Diver, and Strip-Diver as well as the Swimming Baitfish and Swimming Frog.  The concept of all these designs is the same, with variations in color and tail length/materials.

If I had to blindly choose one fly type to use on the shallow, weedy water you describe, it would be one of these.  Period.  And remember the design only adds to their usefulness; for fish that might be spooked by the erratic diving movement, you can simply fish it as a traditional hair bug (on floating line) by giving a few, slight twitches rather than hard pulls.

You can google for the various Dahlberg designs available through different sources, but I'll add a few links for your convenience.

http://www.umpqua.com/pc-69-7-diving-bug...

http://www.umpqua.com/pc-61-7-diving-min...

http://www.umpqua.com/pc-67-7-mega-diver...

http://www.umpqua.com/pc-85-7-umpqua-swi...

http://www.umpqua.com/pc-846-7-umpqua-sw...

Good Luck!

Answer 2

i would go with a dry fly. i fished some places in wisconsin that had similar conditions. i got tired of pulling weeds off and retying so i switched to a royal wolf and BAM it worked great on the bass and the pike.i also got the same results with a humppy. good luck       ps these are trout flys but i dont think the bass or pike know it.

Answer 3

Have you tried throwing a popper to them? Also something with some bulk might trigger some strikes. Here are some links to some of my most productive flies:

                      http://www.kmdtackle.com/kmd-bass-popper...

                      http://www.kmdtackle.com/bass-candy.html

                      http://www.kmdtackle.com/crayfish-patter...

I hope these are what you were looking for. Good Luck and Good Catchin!

Heres a bass that I caught on  a Bass Candy..It was 20 1/2" and about 5 1/2 lbs.  http://www.ohiofishingsource.com/100_165...

Answer 4

Go to Orvis's web site, or others with flies available.  I preferr a Dahlberg diver that is a large deer hair top water that darts under the water when pulled in short bursts.  They can be had with a mono loop to make them somewhat weedless.  They are at least large enought to attract bass, and can be had in several different colors

Answer 5

The Wooly Bugger, the all time # 1 Bass producing Fly ever in the history of mankind...............

Answer 6

dont forget the mouse fly

Answer 7

deer hair popper or cork poppers. and as always WOOLY BUGGERS

read this article it's about fly fishing for bass

http://www.helium.com/items/1072479-fly-...