if you could use just one fly in the bwca, wat would it be?

Clouser minnow. Chartreuse and white with red eyes

this is hard to do, but id have to say id use a dahlberg diver.

'wooly bugger'

butthead

Dahlberg diver We'll find out in the Q in June! :)

Before my first trip I was tying a nernuf frog. I had just spun the hair on when the phone rang. When I returned my 4-5 year old son was standing at my vise with a pair of scissors and he said, "Daddy I hep." He had cut the feather legs off. To salvage the fly I retied the legs on another hook then attached the new legs with mono to the back of the hook with the spun hair creating a jointed diving nernuf frog. It was, and is my killer fly. The origional is retired. It has outstanding action when stripped about 4-6" at a time. My distant #2 is a clouser minnow.

How do you guys like to fish the clauser? I assume youre using sinking line, but what about stripping rate? I will be in bw early august if that helps.

Depends on what I'm fishing for. If its walleyes and its August, sinking line and deep holes in a river would be ideal. Or work it down the edges of main lake structure, like a rockpile or reef, with an alternating twitch pause routine. Try to make it look like a minnow that wants to get away but can't. Strip, pause, sink, repeat. Smallies are similar, find a concentration of fish and let them tell you how to fish it. If I were after the big gators, I'd go with the biggest ugliest version I could find, and then wait a month and fish them in September when the true sows strap on the feedbag. Big cast, super fast retrieve and giant flies. There is truly nothing like hooking into a 40"+ fish in freshwater on the long rod.

I have fished the Clauser by slow trolling near shore with a floating line. I have picked up several smallmouth this way. Cast to shore and erratic stripping is also effective. I have fished them deep with a sinking line for Walleye, which works well. I mostly fish top water though, so I do not have a lot of Clauser use.