My personal preference for fishing a Clouser Minnow or other streamer-type patterns that imitate baitfish and similar creatures tends to be in higher water, when the bigger fish that prey on the ...

For those of you not familiar with the Clouser Minnow, it is a type of fly referred to as a “streamer,” which is meant to imitate bait fish. Streamers are usually pulled through the water by ...

Few flies are as ubiquitously potent as the Clouser Minnow. Invented by legendary fly angler Bob Clouser in the late 1980s, the pattern quickly proved it had far more uses than originally intended.

(This goes up to 90 percent or more during the colder months.) This bass fell victim to a well-placed clouser minnow in the sticks. Dac Collins I tend to use streamers and other subsurface flies more ...

This or the Clouser Minnow produce when other flies don't ... I swim it back like a streamer. In lakes I'll crawl it along the bottom, and then swim it back. Get it in a bead head and without.

A week of fishing with conventional tackle anglers taught me some things that led to more success with a fly rod.

The best fly is the chartreuse and white clouser minnow on a 1/0 or 2/0 hook. Other patterns mimicking baitfish are popular, but as a rule the clouser minnow is a fine choice. An 8 weight setup is ...

For anything. It was in 1987 when Bob Clouser, a prominent fly-fishing guide from Pennsylvania, developed the Clouser minnow. Two years later in an issue of Fly Fisherman magazine, the ruling icon for ...

The renowned Bob Clouser, creator of the famed Clouser Minnow fly pattern, was the featured speaker at the May meeting of the Potomac Valley Fly Fishers. The Clouser Minnow fly pattern is known ...

Kenzie White caught 12 largemouth bass using a Clouser Minnow fly on April 17, 2025 at Brantley Lake. Information and photos provided by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Carlsbad area anglers ...

Kenzie White caught 12 largemouth bass using a Clouser Minnow fly on April 17, 2025 at Brantley Lake. Information and photos provided by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Carlsbad area ...