Clouser Question

[funbun]

This is more of a fishing question than tying. So, do you guys vertical jig with clousers or what? What rig do you use with them? Do you use jig hooks or just straight hooks?

[STUMP HUNTER]

I have not jigged with them before but have used some for trout fishing. I let them sink to the bottom or close and slow reel them back. These were the minnows but you can use a Clouser minnow, nymph, crayfish, leach and also top water in a popper. Each could be fished the way you wanted. Most have to be weighted so you could build off the jighead to get the weight you want to use.

[skiptomylu]

The real Clouser is a fly and fished with a fly rod. You can add weight several ways though and tie it on a jig head, but other ways to add weight if someone wanted to. Just use some tungsten hour glass eyes. I don't use them personally so maybe someone else can add to what is here for you. I like the Crappie Candy better my self and I plan on trying it with a fly rod next spring if this lake gets some water.

Skip

[skeetbum]

I'm in the same school with Skip. I have some tied, with lead eyes, but my time is really weird lately and I can't seem to get to the water when I have the urge. The Crappie Candy is a variant, and I have the stuff to tie those too. You could use a real light action spinner to fish them, but they aren't designed for it. I had a guy tell me, might have been a TV show, that there has been like 84 different species caught on a clouser style streamer. I'm a rookie with a fly rod, but I'm going back to school to learn to fish these two styles of streamers. Keep us posted on what you do with these, I for one will be waiting to hear.

[funbun]

I've been tying them on jig hooks with beadchain eyes with synthetic materials from Fly Tyer's Dungeon.