Episode 71: Bob Clouser - Fly Tying, Smallmouth Bass, & Stories with Lefty

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Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

I first met Bob Clouser during a trade show in Somerset, New Jersey close to 15 years ago when I first traveled there with Hardy. The industry is small, everyone knows each other in about 10 minutes. But it's people like Bob that give you that special bonus of going to a show. Many of these guys have been in attendance for decades, they’re the foundation of our sport, and Bob was one of my guys. Clouser has a big, boisterous laugh that is full of love. His heart is with Smallmouth Bass and the Susquehanna river. Always has been and always will be. The Smallmouth Bass was was Lefty’s favorite too. Bob’s life changed when his father bought him a fly tying vice at a young age, but it was thirty seven years ago when he tied the Clouser Minnow that would be a game changer. It was a baitfish pattern that would catch the largest variety of fish that swim. Lefty said he caught 86 difference kinds of fish with it. Bonefish to billfish this fly is deadly. Bob has been a guide, tying and casting instructor, author of two books and lecturer. But Bob’s biggest story is one about love, the love of fish and his friends. We hope you enjoy...

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0:00.0	Bob Clouserouserzer is one of the kindest human beings I've ever had the pleasure of being with.
0:11.0	He's a wonderful friend. His creation, the
0:14.2	Klauser Mino, is probably the most versatile fly ever designed. The variety of
0:19.4	fish it's caught is mind-boggling. From small-mouth bass to billfish it's caught them all.
0:25.3	Two, his hunting skills in woodsmanship is world-class. He's predominantly known as a
0:31.2	small-mouth bass fisherman, but his reach is far beyond that.
0:36.0	On today's podcast, he shares his life as an angler, outdoorsman, fly designer, and his great friendship with the late lefty cray. We hope you enjoy.
0:46.0	We hope you enjoy.
0:47.0	We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke everything we broke lines we broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds
0:57.2	We broke marriages we broke the whole thing
1:02.3	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls
1:05.7	and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's when the pot. I knocked another arrow and he turned
1:11.0	around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
1:13.6	So I double-lung them both ways.
1:16.4	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:19.6	I got him on. All right now, I'm going to teach him a lot so. I'm just an old guy that likes to fish. I'm not quitting yet.
1:30.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:33.7	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:37.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body, but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly torn
1:46.6	out, thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly, wow! What a ride.
1:55.0	There's something fizzy going on here.
1:58.0	All right. Bob, thank you for allowing us to come visit a you know your
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