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Murray's Heavy Hellgrammite©
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Black, Brown or Olive
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Murray's
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Murray's Skunk Road |
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Murray's Olive Road |
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Murray's Blond Perch Bucktail© |
Murray's Tadpole Streamer© |
| The late Joe Brooks introduced me to the orginial Blond series many years ago and they have given me many nice bass. By adding more flash and perch colors we have a new bucktail that is outstanding. Fish these around the islands and along the bank with a slow six inch stripping action. | This streamer looks and acts like a real tadpole. Fish this with a slow stripping action along the drop offs where the mud-bottom flats meet the main currents in the river and where slow back waters flow into the river. |
 Fur Leech Black Size 4, 6 $2.00  |
 Murray's Strymph© Black, Olive or Cream Size 4, 6, 8, 10 $2.95 |
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Murray's Marauders© |
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| Black, Pearl, Chartreuse Size 6, 8, 10, 12 $2.75 |
Brown, Olive Size 6, 8 $2.75 |
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Murray's Magnum Creek Chub size 4 $2.95 |
Many large smallmouth bass feed heavily upon natural creek chub minnows in all streams so I've designed this to appeal to these large bass. Fish these across stream below riffles and in the deep pools |
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Murray's Magnum Bluegill size 4 $2.95 |
Last August I was stripping in a bluegill that had taken my fly and the largest smallmouth bass I've seen in many years came up and grabbed the bluegill. This pattern will give the largest bass a big mouthful and thus might give you your largest bass of the season. |
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Murray's Blond Bucktail Series sizes 4 and 6 $2.75
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The late Joe Brooks introduced me to these when I first started fly fishing. That year the Honey Blond gave me one of the largest rainbows I've ever caught on the Yellowstone River. These are all outstanding for smallmouth and largemouth bass and large trout. I've designed these in a streamlined style so they cast well and they are weighted to sink well. |
Murray's Dying Minnow Series© |
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| These deep-running Dying Minnows are great matches for these three natural minnows as they struggle along the stream bottom. Fish them across stream with a very slow six-inch stripping action. | ||
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Chub Size 4, 6 $2.50 |
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Shiner Size 4, 6 $2.50 |
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Murray's Betsy Streamer© |
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This is a modern version of the original pattern that was one of the most successful and popular flies on many trout streamers fifty years ago. It reguarly takes big trout when other patterns fail. |
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Coleman's Purple Passion© Size 4, 6 $2.75 |
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| This exciting smallmouth streamer is very effective in all streams. Fish it deeply with a slow stripping action. Designed by one of our guides, John Coleman. | ||
Murray's Heavy Streamer Series© |
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Murray's Shiner Streamer© |
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Bass feed heavily upon small sunfish and we've had outstanding success with this pattern. Fish them in tight to the banks and around grass beds with a very slow stripping action. |
This pattern is my favorite shiner streamer to use if the water is too fast or too deep to easily get the Silver Outcast down deeply. I like to fish these tight against the deep grass beds and drop offs at the edges of the gravel bars. |
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We fish these chub minnows in the cuts between ledges, in open pools and below riffles with great results. The slower and deeper you can fish them the bigger fish you'll catch. Equally effective for both trout and bass. |
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Woolly Bugger/Flash-A-Bugger |
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| These are some of the most popular streamers for both bass and trout in both lakes and streams. The standard line hand stripping action is by far the most popular method of handling these flies. | ||
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Cone Head Woolly Bugger | Black, Olive
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Flash-A-Bugger | Black, Olive
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Woolly Bugger | Black, Olive
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Clouser Deep Minnows |
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| These are well designed streamers by an angler who knows his business. They are equally effective in freshwater and saltwater all across the country. The standard retrieve is a firm line hand stripping action which induces a pulsating action to the bucktail thus making the streamer look and act like real minnows and bait fish. | ||
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Chartreuse/White |
Size 2, 6, 2/0 |
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Silver Shiner |
Size 2, 6, 2/0 |
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Golden Shiner |
Sizes 2, 6 |
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Sculpin |
Sizes 2, 6 |
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Spuddler |
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| This was the first of our modern realistic sculpin streamers. It has been one of my favorite patterns ever since Red Monical gave me a few over twenty years ago, explaining that he and Donnie Williams were trying to come up with a better streamer to fool the big bull head-feeding browns on the Yellowstone River. It was an instant success on those browns and still is. In fact, I carry about three dozen of these with me to Montana on each trip.-Pleasantly, I discovered my smallmouths in the East went for this streamer with the same gusto the trout in the West did. Today, I always carry the Spuddlers in both my trout vest and bass vest. | |
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| Silver Outcast Size 4, 6 $2.95 |
This is the fly to use when you see bass chasing minnows over shallow gravel bars and along aquatic grass beds where the water is less than three feet deep. If the water is over three feet deep or the current is strong the new Murray's Shiner is more productive. |
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| James Wood Bucktail© Size 2, 4 $2.75 |
| When I hijacked this one of Pete Perinchief's bonefish flies from a trip to Bermuda, I had no idea how effective it would be on smallmouths; I was just too thrifty to stick them on the shelf until my next bonefish trip. Many of the anglers who use this fly extensively believe the bass hit it because they mistake it for a small sunfish. This could well be the case because when the small sunfish are hatching off the beds I make some phenomenal catches on this fly. My best tactic is to wade downstream about fifty feet off the banks and cast the James Wood Bucktail in tight against the banks and slowly strip the fly out. Tied on a short shank hook. |
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