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.

Good baitfish imitations are often the ticket to fly fishing success. Mike Conner While flipping through a couple of wholesale fly company catalogs recently, it occurred to me that the number of ...

It’s a fly you can experiment with and still come out looking like you knew exactly what the fish wanted. Whether you’re fishing a river, a stream, or even a lake, the Clouser Minnow just works.

If the unthinkable happens and I havent tempted a fish with these two offerings I have a couple of other secret weapons I can turn to. In recent years orange flies have been growing in popularity on ...

There you have it three useful, easy-to-tie fly patterns to help you get started. But once you begin tying flies and actually catch a few fish on your own patterns someth ...

But whether the fly is a 4/0 bass bug tied with deer hair, a delicate streamer, a dry fly standing pertly on stiff hackle fibers or the deadly Clouser minnow, the fly tying experience is something ...

Mo Bradley has been tying “fly fishing patterns” for the Kamloops Lakes since the 1960’s. Mo came to Kamloops in 1965 from Derbyshire, England. Retired from his auto body repair career, he continues ...

“I’ve been tying since I was six, so 37 years now. I grew up in a fly shop so it was kind of part of growing up,” he said. “We did a rainbow trout minnow.