The Best Flies For Smallmouth Bass

Our Favorite Flies for Fly Fishing Smallmouth Bass

While all of our flies in our bass flies category will help you catch more bass some of them are tied with either smallmouth bass or largemouth bass in mind and might be a bit more effective for those species.

Here are our 10 best flies for smallmouth bass (in both surface and subsurface versions):

• Blockhead Popper Holschlag's
• Boogle Bug Popper
• Hansen's Meal Ticket
• Murdich Minnow (or the Mini version)
• Pat Ehler's Crazi Craw
• Tequeely
• Todd's Wiggle Minnow
• Whitlock's Hare Sculpin

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Check out all of our bass flies for largemouth and smallmouth bass.