Murray's July Bass Fly Special is a 9-fly smallmouth bass assortment curated by our guides for summer fly fishing in Virginia on the Shenandoah River.
July is an excellent month for smallmouth bass fly fishing on the Shenandoah River. We've checked our past years stream notes and checked with our guides on what is working. Here is the Top Smallmouth Bass Flies for July. Often we are dealing with lower water levels, therefore we have switched to lighter flies and have included poppers for the top water action. These flies are used frequently in our Half Day Fly Fishing Lessons and Smallmouth Bass Guided Fly Fishing Trips throughout the summer.
9 guide-proven smallmouth bass flies plus a Murray's Leader
This special includes (1 of each fly):
- Murray's Regular Hellgrammite size 4
- Shenandoah Blue Popper size 4 (we recommend cutting the weed guard off)
- Murray's Chugger, Frog size 4
- Shenk's White Streamer size 4
- Rubber Leg Nymph, Brown size 6
- Clouser Crayfish, Olive size 6
- Clouser Crayfish, Dark Brown size 8
- Murray's Marauder, Olive size 8
- Murray's Marauder, Black size 8
- with 1-Murray's Bright Butt 9ft 2X Leader
A 9ft 7-weight Fly Rod is recommended as it has the power to turn over larger smallmouth bass flies.