1) Muddler minnow tied with a sparse head (not tightly packed, want it to stay just above the jagged rock bottom that eats even hook up patterns). I tie them in various colors to imitate baitfish to crawfish.
2) Any Hook point up crawfish pattern
3) Backstabber (black or rust)
4) Soft hackles (usually size 12 in tandem under an indicator once the water gets low , slow and gin clear)
5) Purple boa leach (dragged along the bottom) size 6 or 8 on a mustad 3366

I fish smaller water so my flies tend to be smaller unless its rained recently but smaller is usually better) . Muddler minnows (3xl streamer hook) and backstabbers (Mustad 3366) in sizes 6 & 8. Crawfish size 4 to 10 (3xl streamer hook ( in size 4 a Mustad 3366 works well too)) well weighted. When I'm lucky (or cursed) and I hit the gizzard shad fry hatch then an appropriately sized siver or white floating minnow pattern or a white muddler minnow with lots of flash for subsurface.

I agree w BrianM. Favorite smallmouth fly is a Muddler, sizes 10, 12 and 8. Worked very well on SW Wisconsin (Driftless ) streams when I lived back there. Platte River in Grant County upstream from Coon Hollow Road was my favorite.

I fish something like this too and have done very well with them. I change flies mostly because I have hundreds of patterns that interested me and got tied and if I just stuck with the same ones I know work I'd never get a chance to use up any flies.

It's basically a smaller version of Popovics' Semper Fleye (a striper fly), which is itself pretty much Homer Rhodes' Seaducer (a tarpon fly) though I gather the latter was often tied with stiffer hackle up front. I've never seen a tarpon, so what do I know. I mostly use red in front of white

I recall Lefty Kreh saying this was one of his favorite smallie flies.....I think it was called a "red and white hackle fly". Maybe that is just my vernacular for it. But the Homer Rhode's Seaducer was referenced in association with it.....

Excellent ties bones.I am going to use the rubber legs in various sizes much more this season.Going to try to weight it in different ways to see if i can get to kind of tumble on the fall in still water.The last one i had i was throwing at some rooting carp and caught 3 crappies.

Just three -- clousers, muddler minnows, gurglers. A close fourth is the Tabory Snake Fly.

The Crittermite is a new pattern for me and was a very productive pattern last year. The Smallmouth Gotcha also became a permanent member of the fly box.