"I Clousered My Rod"

Bob Clouser advises “throwing the line away from the rod tip” in this article about a recent clinic he held at Abingdon, Tennessee’s Virginia Creeper Fly Shop. He also reveals a malady made common by the success of his Clouser Minnow. “‘It got to where guys would make bad casts and they’d hit the rod tip and break it off. So they’d send it back to the factory and the factory guy would ask, “How did you break that?” And they’d say, “I hit it with a Clouser Minnow,”‘ said the 67-year-old Clouser….” George Thwaites in the Kingsport Times-News.