Your top 5 go to flys for creek and river smallies

[Striperbobby]

Mine are:
1. Murdich minnow
2. Clawdad
3. Buggle bug
4. Clouser minnow
5. Shminnow

 

[bdhoover77]

Kreelex minnow, circus peanut, Villwock’s roamer, sparkle minnow, shimmering minnow

 

[jifigz]

In no particular order....

1. Murdich
2. Clouser Crayfish
3. Gurgler
4.Wooly Bugger
5. Clouser Minnow.

 

[TimMurphy]

Dear Board,

Cylindrical foam popper- foam glued to a hook with a deer hair or hackle tail and hackle collar before the tail

Clouser Minnow

Wooly Bugger

Lefty's Cactus Fly

If they don't work a floating Rapala, Heddon Torpedo, Zara Spook or tube jig will salve my soul.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

 

[ffejfish14]

My top five creek flies for smallmouth are:
1. Chernobyl Hopper
2. Panfish Popper
3. Dahlberg Diver
4. Clouser Minnow
5. Gully Ultra Craw

 

[Bamboozle]

1. A small orange Gaines Mini Pop (when I can find them)
2. Other small panfish poppers
3. Black Murray's Marauder
4. Black Shenk's Sculpin
5. Clouser

 

[McSneek]

1. Brown/copper Wooley Bugger
2. Black Wooley Bugger
3. White foam popper
4. Don’t Need
5. Anything Else

 

[poopdeck]

1. Clouser
2. Pats rubber leg/Girdle
3. Mop flies in yellow, tan or chartreuse
4. Gurgler
5. Tequeely.

Honorable mention - Copper John. I’m not sure why but my closest crick SMB really love them for some reason. Never really fish them anywhere else though.

 

[Tiogadog]

1. Kreelex
2. Game changer
3. Ole Mr. Wiggley
4. Articulated Sculpin style streamer
5. Clouser

 

[barrybarry]

My top five creek flies for smallmouth are:
1. Very Small White Popper (no legs)
2. Black and brown wolley bugger
3. Black and olive wooley bugger
4. Clouser Brown Drake
5. Black Marabou Streamer

 

[Richbo69]

Lots of great suggested flies. Hopefully by late summer I can post mine. I have been tying a lot of the above to give Smallies a try this spring and summer. Looking at what rod setup to get now and then should be ready to try and figure it out! Should be fun.

 

[tomgamber]

Shenk's white minnow
Tan beadhead bugger
Gurgler
Black and red variegated bugger
Buggy yarn Leech

In no particular order

 

[Kyle]

Olive wooley bugger

White clouser minnow

Any sort of popper

Anything with a zonker tail in olive or brown

Crayfish imitation

 

[tztrout]

Hares Ear/Black marabou bugger
Slumpbuster
White pearl zonker
Chubby Chernobyl
Pats Rubber legs

 

[shakey]

Gartside gurgler
Chubby Chernobyl
Streamer with a red body,silver rib and white hackle wing
Cat's whisker in gray and/or olive
Marabou streamers in white,black,olive,purple or yellow and black

Bonus: briminator

 

[Dave_W]

Pencil Popper
Stonecat pattern
Hellgrammite pattern
Rubber legged nymph in large & small sizes
Clouser Minnow

(This thread will be moved to WW forum soon)

 

[tomgamber]

Stonecat looks like a stimmy on acid. 3 and 4 are black wooly buggers. Not sure why but I just have not had a ton of success with a Clouser on smallies. I've caught a lot of other fish, salt and fresh on em but its weird. I even keep trying them. I want them to work. I like how much variety there is on favorites.
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[jayL]

Cylindrical foam popper- foam glued to a hook with a deer hair or hackle tail and hackle collar before the tail

This is the most fun one imo. I tied a few up for the beaverhead ten or so years ago when the browns were being extra grabby. They work best if you add crude insults to the body with a sharpie. 'F*CK YOU!' got the most interest.

 

[wbranch]

Clouser X 5

1. Gray over white
2. Blue over white
3. Brown, olive, over white
4. Chartreuse over yellow
5. All yellow

 

[JG63]

Poppers - mid water column minnows - bottom minnows