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The
Clouser minnow is normally used as a saltwater fly,
but it can be a good choice for fishing trout. Knowing that
trout will eat trout, you might want to bring a half dozen
or dozen minnow patterns. If I were to pick one minnow pattern
for trout I would use the Clouser minnow.
Size
and Color
The
Clouser is tied on a saltwater hook in various sizes and
colors. The gray buck tail with off white and the light
green with off  white
in sizes 4-6 are a good choice for trout here in Chile and
Argentina. They come weighted with lead eyes and that makes
them swim in an up and down fashion as you strip and pause
the fly towards you.. The Clouser minnow can be used in
a lot of different waters especially where minnows are prevalent.
It can be fished with a floating or sinking line and should
be stripped fairly fast as to imitate an escaping or wounded
minnow.
Brown
Trout Fishing
Brown trout in particular like this fly. The browns in many
of the lakes in Patagonia lay in hiding where the water
of the lake form the shallows. When the lake water is high
the water floods back over the normally reedy area causing
a low lying shallow area. The minnows make their way into
this area and stay there moving in schools as they feed.
The big trout, especially the browns hang out close by hoping
to have an easy meal. In fact we have seen browns just lying
still, passing themselves off as a log, waiting for an innocent
little minnow to swim by. I recall vividly this year as
we approached this kind of water that the Angler said to
me, "this is really so shallow, do you think there
is a fish here?" I said that most of the fisherman
and guides do not bother with this type of water as they
cannot get their boats into it, but the large brown trout
will be here for sure. Since we have boats that can, I would
slowly move around through the shallows looking for trout.
Fishing
Chile and Argentina
This kind of trout fishing is rare and it is said to be
like bone fishing. With the clear water and the bright Clouser
minnow being stripped, this can an exciting process when
you see the type of effect the Clouser minnow has on the
big trout in Patagonia. If you are planning to some fly
fishing in Argentina and Chile contact us and bring some
Clouser minnow.
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