Tools & Supplies Needed to Make a Clouser Minnow

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ALVIN DEDEAUX: All right, we're going to tie this clouser minnow and the tools and materials we need for it are obviously the vise to hold the hook, scissors to cut our materials, pliers for mashing the barb down on the hook, whip finisher for finishing it off. The materials are the hook, of course. We're going to use these weighted dumbbell eyes. They're going to two things. One, they're going to make the fly sink and also they're going to make the fly ride hook point up. There's our dumbbell eye. Make the fly ride hook point up so that it doesn't snag if we're fishing down near the bottom. And then the other materials are the bucktail. We're going to use two different colors. We're going to use a lighter color for the bottom of the fly, the underbody, and then we're going to use a brighter color for the top. And we're using bucktail which is kind of the traditional material for it but you could also use a synthetic material to tie the same fly. This is a fish hair. It's kind of a kinky monofilament material that comes in a bunch of different colors, so you could tie your Clouser with that as well. And then, you'll want a thread. You can either match the thread like so. We sort of matched it to the upper color on this fly. You can also use a contrasting thread. You could use a black or even a white thread. It's kind of up to you what you want the finished fly to look like.

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