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Smallmouth Bass: We are catching many nice smallmouth bass on Hellgrammites from the riffles down for two hundred feet into the large pools. Strip these four inches every ten seconds to swim them slowly across the stream after you cast them straight

The Hexagenia Mayflies are coming well on the North Fork of the Shenandoah and Clinch Rivers.  When I find the bass coming up to them in water I wade and fish upstream to these bass.  When I find them rising in water over 3 feet deep I fis

The bass streams are too cold for good fishing. The post Smallmouth Bass Fishing Report January 7 2014 appeared first on Murray's Fly Shop.

The natural grasshoppers crickets and cicadas are large enough to attract the large bass.  I do well fishing the Murray’s Bass Hopper 8 along the pasture fields and hay fields. The Murray’s Bass Cricket 8 is excellent along the wood

Smallmouth Bass: There is good surface fishing on both on the North and South Fork of the Shenandoah River now with Deer Hair Bass Bugs.  On the North Fork of the Shenandoah River I am doing well on the west side of the river upstream from the R

Smallmouth Bass Streams: The North Fork of the Shenandoah River is full but fishable if you wade carefully. The South Fork of the Shenandoah River is too high for good fishing. The post Smallmouth Bass Fly Fishing Report May 16 2016 appeared first o

Yesterday was the first bass fishing trip of the season here in Door County and even though the action where we were fishing was not hot and heavy we did manage to catch some nice bass and had a lot … Continue reading →

On the North Fork of the Shenandoah River we are catching some nice bass where the riffles dump into the large pools.  Effective flies are the Murray’s Black Madtom Sculpin 4 Shenk’s Sculpin 4 and Murray’s Olive Madtom Sculpin

All the bass streams are too cold for good fishing now. The post Smallmouth Bass Fishing Report December 27 2013 appeared first on Murray's Fly Shop.

Smallmouth Bass Streams: The smallmouth bass streams are too high for good fishing. The post Smallmouth Bass Fly Fishing Report February 29 2016 appeared first on Murray's Fly Shop.

Many large bass are feeding in the protected feeding station downstream of the river-crossing ledges.  There are many of these on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River so if you’ll stop in our fly shop I’ll show you where to find t

Smallmouth Bass Streams: The smallmouth bass streams are too cold and too high for good fishing. The post Smallmouth Bass Fly Fishing Report February 18 2016 appeared first on Murray's Fly Shop.

Smallmouth Bass: Both the North and South Forks of the Shenandoah River are fishing well. The North Fork of the Shenandoah River is especially good at access point #1. The South Fork of the Shenandoah River is good at access point #13. I am doing we

The smallmouth bass streams are too cold for good fishing at this time. The post Smallmouth Bass Fishing Report appeared first on Murray's Fly Shop.

Smallmouth Bass: Last week I discussed catching bass between the ledges from the deep cuts with Strymphs. This is an exceptionally effective method so when these cuts become too deep to wade I move over to the side of the pool and continue fishing t

  Smallmouth Bass Fly Fishing Trips Smallmouth Bass Fly Fishing action is just starting to rev up in North Carolina streams in the mountains. Rivers such as the Tuckasegee and Little Tennessee are home to some great action in Western North Caro

The smallmouth bass are feeding heavily on natural hellgrammites and you can catch many large bass on the Murray’s Heavy Hellgrammites in Black Olive and Brown in size 6.   The way I designed these enable us to fish them across strea

The bass streams are too cold for good fishing at this time. The post Smallmouth Bass Fishing Report February 11 2014 appeared first on Murray's Fly Shop.

The bass streams are too cold for good fishing. The post Smallmouth Bass Fishing Report January 29 2014 appeared first on Murray's Fly Shop.

With recent cooler weather and and colder nights the water temperature has dropped to the high 50 degree range. The Smallmouth Bass have responded to the recent cooling water by beginning to put on the fall feed bag. Some of … Continue reading