Fly fishing for trout and salmon is great fun and I have been doing that for 30 years or so but I don’t like to stop there when it comes to fly fishing. Chain pickerel and smallmouth bass love to smash big bugs too. If you haven’t tried fly fishing for pickerel, pike and bass then you are missing out on an awesome experience. Once that you will want to have over and over just like I do.

This year my fishing buddy Jamie is going to experience fly fishing for New Brunswick’s chain pickerel and smallmouth bass and I guarantee you that he will be dreaming about how much fun it is. Jamie and I been fishing together for a couple of years now and he’s never given it a try. He does fly fish for trout but has yet to experience what a pickerel or a big bass can do for one’s fly fishing experience.

The video above is an example of how you can create a big bug that these pickerel and bass love to annihilate. It’s a very basic video but really it’s all you need to know. Once you have the deer hair bug all tied up you can then shape it into whatever you want to throw. I love through mice a bass and pickerel and I don’t even need to put those little eyes and ears to get the job done. The fish don’t seem to mind a bare bug at all.

You don’t need much for fly tying materials to tie up a bass bug. Just need a hook, thread, deer or elk hair, a hair stacker and some head cement to secure the thread and make the head shiny.

  • Hooks: Bass Bug Hook in what ever size you want. I usually go big or stay home.
  • Thread: I keep a dozen or so colours and use the colour that matches the fly.
  • Deer Hair: I use deer hair that has been died various colours so that I can tie my flies in the colours I prefer. But I do like the nature colour of deer hair.
  • Hair Stacker: A hair stacker will help you to get the butt ends of the hairs to all line up for easier spinning on the hook.
  • Head Cement: This is what you use to secure the thread to your fly. Usually used on the head of the fly.

Go ahead, give fly fishing for bass and pickerel a try and I am sure you will be tying a lot more flies and having an entirely new fly fishing experience. Enjoy

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