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muskieman
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if you could use just one fly in the bwca, wat would it be?
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crumpman
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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.
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butthead
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'wooly bugger'
butthead
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moose plums
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Dahlberg diver We'll find out in the Q in June! :)
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crumpman
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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.
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quetico152
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this is hard to do, but id have to say id use a dahlberg diver.
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Tight Loops
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Clouser minnow. Chartreuse and white with red eyes
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Tight Loops
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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. 
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bwfirsttime
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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.
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