Super fast smallie fly...

With the water FINALLY starting to fall it's time to think about some smallmouth fishing. Here's a super easy smallie fly you can whip out in no time...

Thread a bead on a size 2 or 4 hook.



Like with every fly wrap the shank with thread to keep things from sliding around. Then tie in a tail of mylar and just a bit of deer hair.



Tie in a piece of pearl core braid brown and wrap it forward to form a body



Next tie in a saddle feather and using hackle pliers wrap it around a couple times and tie it off



Ill often stop right there and use the fly as is. Sometimes I'll tie in a wing of mylar and a few whisps of bear hair for a different look.



I call the fly the Junction simply because thats one of my favorite spots on the river to use it.

guide to the most common insects/invertebrates found in various places along the Little Miami river:

Peters Cartridge Plant, Kings Mills --Hydropsychid caddisflies, baetid mayflies, heptageniid mayflies

Stubbs Mill Bridge --Hydropsychid caddisflies and baetid mayflies

Middletown Road --Elimia snails very abundant, Hydropsychid caddisflies

Constitution Park, Spring Valley --Baetid mayflies and midges

SR 350, Fort Ancient --Hydropsychid caddisflies, Psychomyia flavida and Elimia sp. snails predominant.

Beechmont Road --Rheotanytarsus midges and bryozoan, hydropsychid caddisflies, baetid mayflies, and flatworms

Wooster Pike --Hydropsychid caddisflies, baetid mayflies, Rheotanytarsus sp. midges, Elimia sp. snails

Behind Lake Isabella --Hydropsychid and philopotamid caddisflies, heptageniid mayflies, Elimia sp. snails predominant. Large mussel bed present

Upstream of the mouth of O'Bannon Creek in Loveland --Hydropsychid caddisflies, baetid mayflies, flatworms, heptageniid mayflies, Elimia sp. snails

Old Kings Dam site --Tricorythodes mayflies, Hydropsychid caddisflies

Downstream of Todds Fork --Waterpenny beetles, Hydropsychid caddisflies, Elimia sp. snails

The Googly

The googly is my favorite fly for smallmouth bass in the rivers near my home. The googly has the double advantage of being deadly on smallies and simple to tie.



Here's my recipe for tying the googly-

First you tie in a tail of fox or squirrel and a peice of tinsel.




then you wrap the tinsel forward till it covers about 60% of the hook shank and tie it in.



Next tie in wings from a saddle,I like grizzly but in truth use whatever I have left over from tying dries.



Then you take some deer hair and loop the thread over it twice. As you pull the thread taut you release the hair with your fingers letting it flare and spin around the hook shank.





Repeat tying in bunches of deer hair till you fill up the hook shank completely.









Tye off the thread and trim the deer hair.



epoxy on your eyes and your done.