Little Missouri Fly Fishing

Caught my first smallmouth at the bridge close to Langley over the Labor Day weekend. We were staying at Shady Lake and I made a little run. I think it was a smallmouth. I don't know my bass. I came home and looked up bass. It was marked like a smallmouth so I'm calling it one! Caught it on a minnow pattern I learned from Kelly or Cheech, not sure which (YouTubes). I had been fishing a crawfish, para nada. Minnow worked. The fish was about 10". The ones I saw in the water, I assume they were smallmouth also, were about the same size. I didn't have any topwater poppers or anything to try. I'm completely new to warm water fly fishing, so I'm well pleased to have caught something.

Smallmouth - Bronze to Olive - with  vertical stripes ONLY! That's if stripes were even evident...

Kentuckies - very hard to distinguish from largemouth, except the upper jaw on the largemouths extends past the eye. Kentuckies does not.

Very easily any one of the three since they're all present!