Clouser Fly Fishing Shop

[charlieb 0]

I guess this is the right place for this topic.

 

Has anyone bought any of the Tying kits and accessories that Bob Clouser offers on his site? I thought that since he's a local (Midletown, PA) I'd give his site a try.

 

Charlie

[conehead 0]

I have purchased materials at his shop in the past (live in the Harrisburg area). All the material he sells is top quality, you may pay a few cents more, but he has the goods.

 

By tying kits, do you mean the kits that have materials to tie up a dozen or so of a certain pattern?

 

Conehead

[charlieb 0]

Conehead:

 

I'm interested in the complete kits to tie his Clouser's Minnows. Thought that would be a good way to go to be sure that I have everything needed.

 

Charlie

[dafack01 0]

Conehead:

 

I'm interested in the complete kits to tie his Clouser's Minnows. Thought that would be a good way to go to be sure that I have everything needed.

 

Charlie

 

 

Here's everything you need for the original Clouser:

 

Streamer Hooks in whatever size you want

Bucktails in whatever colors you want

Dumbbell eyes (in the absolute smallest weight you can get away with)

Flashabou/krystal flash/angel hair/any other flashy material.

 

Directions: Tie on the eyes. Tie in a sparse clump of bucktail. Tie in some flash. Tie on the top clump of bucktail. Finish. Easy.

 

You don't need a kit. Heck, there are about 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different variations on the Clouser and they'll all catch fish. Just browse away and if something looks cool, use it. Super Hair. Unique Hair. Icelandic Sheep hair (streamer hair), Angel Hair, Lite Brite, Yak hair, EP fibers, any of the millions of other synthetic fibers. Play around with mixing different synthetics. Play around with mixing synthetics and naturals. Play around with maybe adding a marabou top wing for some extra movement. Get creative. In some areas (like clear slow water), the bucktail's stiff nature might not catch as much fish as something like Sheep Hair or some sorta synthetic, which will have much more movement than bucktail and give a much more translucent and realistic baitfish image.

 

Or if you want to tie up some big streamers for monsters (Bass of all types, Trout, Muskie, Pike, Billfish, Tuna, etc...) bucktail won't be near long enough. In which case you'd be better off with something like Yak hair or synthetics.

 

I consider the clouser to be more of a style of tying rather than a pattern. Like the Woolly Bugger or Deceiver. There are approximately 98,981,358,749 different effective variations on all three patterns.