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.

Bob Clouser, Middletown’s legendary fly-fishing innovator, yesterday was inducted into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum in Livingston Manor, N.Y.

Editor’s note: This is another in a series featuring favorite flies of Schuylkill County Trout Unlimited Chapter members. In the late 1980s successful Susquehanna River smallmouth bass guide Bob ...

If you haven’t tried chasing smallmouth bass with a fly rod, you’re in for a treat. These fish are the perfect mix of power ...

I remember a term that statisticians used: robust. It simply meant that a certain statistical tool could be used for a variety of tests. Whenever I use a Clouser minnow, I think of its robustness in ...

I’m a dry-fly guide. It’s a choice. Dry flies are my favorite way to fly fish. But, if I could only have one fly to fish for the rest of my life it would be a Clouser. I pick a Clouser, not for its ...

Bob Clouser needs no introduction in fly fishing circles. For nearly three decades as a fly shop owner and smallmouth bass guide on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, this 81-year-old burly, ...