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What flies do you like to use for the White bass? I have been dying to tie some up. I have tied clousers mostly.
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Yellow or white wooly buggers with a lot of flashabou work great for me!
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Nymphs, like Haresear and Prince. Second the yellow, and white buggers plus PINK! But smaller buggers for me.
But they are suckers for small nymphs.
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Ditto hare's ear! Phesant tails, other basic nymphs in a size 12ish.
(Then again, those will catch just about any fish anywhere...)

If I'm going for warm water fish like bass, I like shiny mylar or flash for the wing case. I occasionally will mix in some neon orange or chartruse UV dub in the thorax. Just to see if the color helps get their attention.

The same soft-hackle glo bug we use for carp has got me white bass on the Jordan too.
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[cool][#0000FF]It is harder to find something that white bass WON'T hit than something they WILL. They are a voracious schooling species and are always on the prowl for something to eat. There will be times when fishing might be slow for a while but if you find the fish you can usually count on catching plenty...on just about anything...especially when in a competitive school feeding mode.

Their natural food ranges from midge larvae to leeches to the newly hatched fry of all species...including their own...especially their own.

Almost any decent nymph or wet fly pattern will score white bass. Ditto for streamers, leeches and buggers. But, because Utah Lake is known to be kinda murky at times you will often do better with high-vis colors and contrasting color combos.

Black, green and brown are all effective in the smaller patterns. But small white or chartreuse flies may outproduce them at times.

I like to fish marabou ties in several colors. See the attached pic below. Sparkly white stuff is good when there is some clarity and bright light conditions. But yellow and gold work well when there are newly hatched carp minnows in the shallows.

Black is a universal good color in Utah Lake, for all species. Combine it with some chartreuse for added visibility and appeal.

Purple is often overlooked but can be excellent both for the whities and for the walleyes that often hang around them. A bit of silver glitter in the pattern and/or a bright red head can add visibility and appeal.

Chartreuse is almost always a good color...either as the sole color on the fly or when combined with black, hot red, pink or orange. Putting a contrasting hot color head, tail or stripe on a a chartreuse fly can be money.

Pink. This is one of the best year-round colors for white bass (and other species) on Utah Lake. I like hot pink buggers with silver ribbing. But pink and white combos...front or back...can be great too. And adding a chartreuse tail to a pink body and hackle can really wake up the whities.

There are no limits to the different colors and combos you can use successfully for white bass. In earlier days I used to catch a bunch on an old squirrel tail streamer with a yellow chenille body and a red tag tail...the same fly I used up in the Provo for some big browns.

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Absolutely anything working when they are in a feeding frenzy.
I just know the few trips I made to Utah or Willard, the minute I switched to a nymph I started catching them. On the Jordan River, small softhackle in Olive was deadly.
But for me, if the catching is slow, but you know they are there, I always down size.
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Yeah, as has been expressed, they're not too picky. I like something like this because it's durable, flashy and has some built-in weight:

If the embedding doesn't work, here's the link: http://youtu.be/S-c7f6vJR34
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