How to Crayfish Hop

[@Midwestfishingadventures]

TopWaterAssassin78 we have been flooded out too. Waters were just starting to get to decent levels and we got a bunch of rain today. Tight lines and good luck on your trip.

[@bowhunter63sm]

Great video,We have been battling high water all year

[@Midwestfishingadventures]

+bowhunter63sm thanks for the feedback and I appreciate the kind remarks. We have had a month or so of really good water conditions. Just in time for the fall feeding frenzy.

[@TopWaterAssassin78]

Nice smallmouth. I'm going smallmouth fishing at the end of july. And i cant wait. Hopefully the small rivers in my area wont be flooded.

[@Brady_smith195]

Who asked

[@Midwestfishingadventures]

@Texa$Rigged thanks for the kind words. Still working on the talking and fishing thing. As far as lines I only use SA lines and can't speak on Rio or Cabelas. The SA Aircel Bass for 7/8 wt is 30 bucks.

[@RobertLakeswildfound]

Nice video, those first two couldn't have cooperated better! Good informational video, looks like most were hitting the pause between hops.

[@Midwestfishingadventures]

Robert Lakes little bit of luck on that day. And most of the strikes are on the pause. A lot of times you don't feel them you see your line run. Gotta watch the end of you fly line like a hawk.

[@xtrag00d]

Is the fly line floating or sinking line? Going to try out this technique tomorrow on bass opener! Tight lines 🎣

[@Midwestfishingadventures]

Floating line

[@TexasRigged]

Wonderful video! Such great information. I will certainly try this out. Also how is the Scientific Angler fly line?? It's pretty competitively priced against Rio and Bass Pro/Cabelas Line

[@Jnf458]

Is it normal to use a non tapered leader? Would be nice, the store bought tapered ones get really expensive. Thanks Again

[@Midwestfishingadventures]

brian Solberg it's not really normal. Most people use tapered leaders. But I can buy a whole spool of vanish flourocarbon for the price of 2 or 3 leaders. A straight piece of flourocarbon doesn't roll over as easy but that is okay for smallmouth fishing most of the time. I hope to put out some more detailed videos out this year as I continue to grow as an angler.

[@SasquatchTX]

brian Solberg Brian, I never use tapered leaders for large fish anymore, especially streamer fishing with short leaders. If I am not running just a straight piece of flouro, I use a two section leader (mostly to keep the relatively thin 15 or 12 lb leader from slicing through the flyline coating) consisting of a 20 or 25lb butt about 12 to 18 inches then the 12 or 15lb main section, line type (sinking/sink tip vs floater) determines overall length. On sinking lines or sink tips I never run more than a 4' leader, floaters I will run no more than a rod length leader. With big bass flies, you get good turn over. Tapered leaders work well to dissipate energy with small flies, besides giving the advantage of stepping down from a flyline that can be an 1/8th of an inch thick to something like 5X smoothly.

[@denofearthundertheeverlast5138]

@ Brian..Try the Orvis Poly leaders, I use the fast sinking 10' salmon and clear floating 7' trout leaders I buy two of each and a spool of either mono or floro in 12-15lbs. The Poly Leaders are made of the same material as the floating and sinking fly lines and act as an extension and attach with the standard loop to loop way, for bass you would add about a 18"- 24" piece of your preferred mono at the end on the poly leader for your tippet, these can last for a few seasons before I have to buy more, I use mine for Largemouth but have caught everything including bream and catfish using baitfish patterns, tip...you can also use a piece of the clear used fly line tips to make your own. Using these poly leaders allow you to only use normal fishing line as the tippet, but still have the tapered part of the fly line acting as the butt section of the fishing line. I use a Perfection Loop for the attachment points on the fly line leader connections, it makes it easy to switch out from floating leader for top water bass poppers to going under with streamers (depending on how deep the water is) you can get away with using the floating poly leader with the streamers for shallow fishing along the bank or when the bass are feeding on minnows just below the surface. it saved me a bunch of money so far.

[@EscapingTheCity]

So I'm guessing you can use the same technique with other streamers like a wooly bugger and have similar success?

[@Midwestfishingadventures]

Absolutely.

[@onlyinillinois5461]

where are you fishing at

[@Midwestfishingadventures]

for smallmouth Northern Illinois

[@onlyinillinois5461]

MWFishingAdventures yes

[@dbarefoot84]

Someone get this guy a net