First clouser

[AWMiller]

nice start!! another way to control that flaring is to take the wraps in front and behind the eyes as in these clousers that I love to tie up...

This first pic is an example of the tie in front of and behind the eyes to control more of the flair. While this one is still flared out, it was the look I was shooting for. Sometimes I'll take that top set of bucktail and tie it down too if I find that the top set of bucktail is flaring out too wildly as you can see done in this first pic...




Here's another pic showing a pattern that has been stellar in both freshwater and saltwater.... Now in this one I didn't tie down that top set of bucktail... what I did was start some anchoring wraps at the ends of the bucktail nearest the hook eye (but I didn't really bear down on these anchoring wraps until I had about 5 or 6 wraps going from the hook eye to the clouser eyes).... then I held down the bucktail and gave some firm wraps to form the head and finished it off and coated with "Hard As Nails"..... I think you'll get the idea here even though it's a bit difficult to see.





The thing I've learned is to go with thin layers and thin wraps and a few drops of "Hard As Nails" here and there and the patterns really come out nice. Nothing like Bob Clouser's of course, but these still catch fish and yours will too!

Happy tying!!