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Clousers?
How many of you use smaller "Clouser" type flies for trout? I've been having some very good luck forthe past two days on the same small brown, black, and white "Clouser" Style of fly. It has a very small gold dumbell eye on it, and it's light enough for me to cast easily with my three weight or four weight. As soon as I get a few more pics on my disposable camera, I'll post some pictures of the cool "Golden" trout I've been catching lately. Today, i actually landed a little Largemouth , and a few small Crappie also!! I'm just wondering if this fly is actually a clouser, or a variation of a crazy charlie or something.
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bwagner,
I also tie and use smaller "clouser" type flies with good success on trout. I just tied up some tonight to match the smaller perch in our rivers with dark olive green back, orange center and white bottom. Most of the spinner fishermen on the rivers seem to have success throwing a crank bait with those three colors in them so I have to try it. In the spring when they turn loose a lot of water from the spillways to control floods and wash a lot of winter kill shad into the rivers, you can have a ball using a clouser with a lot of white and gray in it.
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Warren
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I've caught a couple rainbows on them using a size 9 (yes, nine...that's what the pack of hooks I used swear they are and no, I'm not holding it upside down). http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
I've watched trout hit these a couple times. Fishing from a dock on a crystal clear spring creek. Casting to fish just upstream and working it past them (giving it tons of life as they follow it downstream...and they end up hitting it both times right in front of where I'm standing!)
I use a 5/32" barbell eye to get them down quickly (so the current doesn't push them past my target by the time they get deep enough to be noticed).
Both times were on clousers I tied because I can't find the color combinations I want in the smaller size I want...
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I have done well with small Clouser Minnows using beadchain eyes with white calf tail belly, black krystal flash for the lateral line, and gray squirrel tail over the kf.
Steve
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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went"-Will Rogers
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I've used several Clouser-type flies for trout with great success.
Colour combinations that have been particularly successful include:
1. blue bucktail over blue krystal flash over a white belly.
2. brown bucktail over rootbeer krystal flash over a yellow belly.
3. the Foxee Clouser
4. olive rabbit fur, over a variety of krystal flash colours, over a white rabbit fur belly.
These flies have worked well when other have not.
Cheers,
Andrew
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Have used various color combos successfully for trout many times. Last time out caught some nice browns on the Smith River in VA. Haven't tried them for some reason here in MD. but we'll have to give it a whirl. Did you try them up on the Gunpowder?
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I have a few flies tied by Bob at our club and a nuber were the standard 2 inch long but the smaller ones tied with red squirrel tail are 1 to 11/4 long.
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I have a few flies tied by Bob at our club and a nuber were the standard 2 inch long but the smaller ones tied with red squirrel tail are 1 to 11/4 long.
