I fished with a 9’ 2 wt & a # 10 clouser this morning.
That should have been a ball on that rod, that’s a nice crappie especially for a big city fish.
Nice set-up and nice crappie Bill. Go get um !!
SWEET!!! Nice looking reel too, what is it?
Great minds! I’ve been having fair success recently with #10 and #8 beadchain eye Kraft Fur Clousers, in chartreuse…for crappies, bass and bluegills.
Good job!
I was fishing for smallies out of a boat last fall and happened upon two guys in a canoe still fishing with minnows and bobbers. As I was upstream from them I caught and released three nice crappie and as I went by them they asked what I was catching them on. I told them a clouser and they didn’t have a clue. I then said it was a minnow imitation and they didn’t believe me because they were fishing with real minnows and not catching anything.
I threw a clouser beside their canoe moved it a couple of feet so they could see the motion. They saw a flash and I had another crappie on. I caught and released two more downstream from them. I don’t know if they were impressed or upset, but it was fun!
You just can’t beat a clouser for a great all around baitfish imitator that’s for sure. The very first bass I caught on a fly rod was with a size 6 clouser using some fluorescent dyed bucktail. Haven’t nailed a crappie yet though 
Mike
Yep! My son and I had the same thing happen a few years back. We were on a prairie lake in central MN and unbeknownst to us we were being watched by a game warden as we took many a fish on small Clousers. We put them all back too only I guess he didn’t see that as he came over and asked to look inside my live well.
I took another right as he pulled up and let it go. He didn’t believe me as he peeked inside the two live wells on my boat!
I also told him a Clouser took them…just hair and lead eyes I said. He just smiled and said not to tell “…those two other guys in the boat over there…” then left!
Jeremy.
the reel is the Thinkfish Bold. It is a semi automatic fly reel from Spain. Now semi automatic fly reels are not at all like the old heavy automatic fly reels of yesteryear. Semi automatics have adjustable drags, extractable spools for line changing, lots of room for backing and the Bold has a spool that can be “palmed” for control of unruly fish.
That is a very neat looking reel! If you don’t mind sharing, what is the price range of that reel?
dude, I just looked them up, they cost 360 euros from Thinkfish… and they don’t ahve distribution into the north american continent that I saw. but still. that made my jaw drop off and walk awy
another great panfish/crappie fly is the Crappie Candy by Al Campbell. Not quiet as well known as the Clouser but in my opinion one the best all around sub surface crappie/panfish flies around in my neck of the woods. This was the very first fly I ever tied and have had a whole bunch of success with it
Mike
the reel cost me $460.00, not cheap but it comes with a 2 year warranty. semi automatic fly reels are high end reels and not for everyone. I ordered my reel directly from thinkfish & it arrived in less than a week.
Hi Bill,
What size and color Clouser was the one that was working on the crappies?
The reel looks like a very good one, but I am thrifty (friends use the term “cheap” instead of thrifty for some reason), and all my fly reels together are a lot less than that!
Thanks and regards,
Gandolf
chartreuse #10
Nice rig and great fish. I caught the one and only crappie I’ve ever seen come out of our pond with a small weedless Clouser. Right after that fish I lost the fly… in the weeds! 
If you don’t mind my being a buttinski… that plastic on your grip can trap water and make a reel mess of your cork. The feel of cork is one of fly fishings pleasures and it is not that hard to clean if you like them that way.
The only reason I’m sticking my neck out in saying this is because we had a few club rods get mold on the grips because ‘someone’ didn’t take the plastic off.