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.

Last week, I spent a couple of days fly-fishing for trout on several streams here in central Pennsylvania with my friend Todd Justus of Chapel Hill, N.C. On our first morning together, we fished ...

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, ...

I planned to write this column more than a month ago, but I got to “field test” its techniques again 10 days ago at Mossy Creek, near Harrisonburg, Va. As a prelude to the Mason-Dixon Outdoor Writers ...