Fly Fishing Minnesota Smallmouth Bass

Fly fishing Minnesota smallmouth bass on the St. Louis River using a Clouser Minnow.
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Category:

Sports

Tags:

• fly
• fishing
• smallmouth
• bass
• minnesota
• clouser
• minnow

[kwndgg]

great vid, what size clouser were you using?

[mnflyfishing]

@kwndgg The clouser minnows that I use normally for smallmouth has a Gamakatsu b10s stinger size 2 hook. Sticky sharp hooks It's about 3" long.

[elementskater48]

please answer- im looking to get into fly fishing for smallmouth and brook trout, but what i dont understand about it is what to do after you have casted your fly into the water. do you let it sit, or is there more technique to it?

[mnflyfishing]

@elementskater48 Let it sit is one technique, . But with streamer fishing, usually your doing the strip pause, strip pause. Sometimes the fish want fast strips, sometimes slow. Let the fish tell you what they want. Different flies require different techniques. ie Poppers use a quick strip to make the popping noise.

[1ericm1]

Hello....nice video. Is there any where to wade fish( or belly boat) and explore the St. Louis on foot? I love to wade fish and want to explore the river but don't know where to start. Any Suggestions?

Thanks

[epistte]

These are the kind of days when you hit so many fish that it gets boring and you start to look for a species that is more of a challenge. I love trout fishing but catching river smallmouth of a fly might be better.

[sotik]

Hey I had a question for you, I got a fly fishing rig for my 22nd birthday but know nothing about the sport. I was wondering if you knew of any good books or videos that walk you through learning to fly fish from picking a pole, how to tie the line to the reel, how to tie the leader to the line, how to tie a fly to it, casting, and well the whole nine yards. So far I have been practicing casting and I am getting better but I have so much more work to do.

[vtsteveo]

How do you like your trolling motor? I just sent it my registration/title papers for my scadden pontoon like yours so I can add a trolling motor. Can you motor upstream with yours? What lb thrust do you have? Would you recommend this over a gas motor?

[hataketori]

some people when the fly fish and the line is all over the ground they let the fish take line and then reel or some people when the fish hit they will like reel in the extra line in quick depending on what kind of fish it is

[alterchristopher]

@thatbastardson

no you just hand line it in

[thatbastardson]

one thing i dont get about fly fishing. say you have alot of line on the ground, from stripping it, and a fish hits. do you let the fish take all that line out, and then start reel back in?

[layschips11]

what do you mean you were using a 5wt fly rod, what is that?

[mnflyfishing]

@SaginawRiverFishing You can get fly line from $25 to over $100 dollars. The RIO fly line I was using was about $75. If you keep up the maintenance on the fly line, they last for quite a few years, unless you run them thru a motor prop :)