Be Patient

Murray’s Magnum Chub $2.95
When fishing streamers across stream on a smallmouth river there are times that the bass take your fly just as the line straightens out downstream of you. Sometimes, however, you feel just a bump and the bass has not taken your fly solidly. These bass can often be teased into taking your fly by allowing it to hold in that position and pumping your fly rod a foot up and down for a minute or two. This time when he hits the streamer set the hook firmly.