What are your favorite colors and sizes for bluegill, bass, and trout. Pictures would help
Chartreuse over white for any fish.
Brown over yellow for trout.
Chartreuse over white and olive over white rank highly for me!
Same with the chartreuse and white but also olive back and white.
for me fl.blur over white
On ‘my’ lake for smallies, it is brown over yellow, with gold tinsel. Odd because the minnows are silver with a blue/gray back! However Brn over yellow works better than a true imitation. Never caught a trout in a river on one.
Chart. / White is the most common dressing, and for good reason. I also am a big fan of anything with red in it. Check out my bucktail streamers for other favorite color combos of mine. They’re very similar to clousers in many respects.
For bluegills - Foxee Red Clouser on a #10 9672 hook. Lead eyes painted red/black
For largemouth bass - Chartruese over white with some flashabou on a #4 3366. Lead eyes not painted.
For smallmouth bass - Brown over orange with copper or rootbear flashabou tied on the same hook as largemouth. Lead eyes painted red/black. I have also tied these on a TMC 200R #6. The bend of the hook along with the weight of the eyes tends to make the fly ride tail up which I think looks like a crawdad in the defensive position.
I have not used Clousers for trout.
Sorry no pics.
For bluegills, I like a size 10 Clouser tied with Craft Fur instead of bucktail. I’ve only tried a few colors. All white with red Krystal Flash has worked really well for me. Olive over yellow also works.
Olive over white, with a very sparse, thin black under the olive, for bass.
Chartruese over white for crappie.
Grey over white for Sand (White) Bass and Stripers.
In salt-water, blue over white.
All white with silver and pearl flash and olive/white with silver and pearl flash. The all white is a perfect imitation of the thread fin shad which is the primary forage fish in the local lakes. Olive over white imitates juvenile bass, bluegill, and carp.
All white clousers can be colored with permanent markers on the water so I really only need that one variation. All white works everywhere I have tried it, fresh and saltwater.
I like the Foxee Red Clousers tied w/ natural red fox tail. Sizes #6 & #8, for trout and #6 & #4 for smallmouth.
I’ve caught more warm-water fish on baby-bass colored clouser than probably any other streamer. Black over olive over white.