Margarita Clouser
Margarita Clouser
This variation of Bob Clouser’s time-tested Clouser Deep Minnow fly is also called the Electric Chicken. In the smaller sizes it is a productive pattern for catching larger bonefish in deeper water or for targeting schooled up mudding bonefish. It is also a good pattern for casting around the reefs and mangroves of the Mexican Yucatan or Cayman Islands for juvenile snappers, grouper or jacks.

This fly also has some interesting ultraviolet (UV) properties as the chartreuse thread and bucktail glow brightly in the UV light spectrum.
The Margarita Clouser under UV light

Materials
Hook: Daiichi 2546 - size 2, 4 or 6
Thread: UTC Ultra 140 - chartreuse
Weight: Mini or small lead dumbbell eyes
Body: Calftail - white
Flash: Krystal flash – gold and pearl
Wing: Bucktail – pink and chartreuse
Adhesive: Loon Outdoors UV Clear Fly Finish - thin

Tying Instructions
Step 1. Insert the hook in the vise and attach the thread.
Step 2. Place a drop of Zap-A-Gap on the thread wraps and then figure eight wrap the dumbbell eyes to the top of the hook (This fly rides hook point up).
Step 3. Tie in a sparse clump of long semi-straight white calftail extending past the bend of the hook about half a hook shank length. First, tie the calftail down in front of the eyes, then tie it down behind the eyes. Move the thread back in front of the eyes.
Step 4.Invert the hook in the vise (if your vise rotates, then rotate). Tie in 2 strands of gold krystal flash and 2 strands of pearl krystal flash using the “fold over” method. Trim the flash so it extends past the calftail about half a hook shank length.
Step 5. Tie in a sparse clump of pink bucktail in front of the eyes only. The bucktail should extend about the same length as the krystal flash.
Step 6. Next, tie in a sparse clump of chartreuse bucktail, on top of the pink bucktail. The bucktail should extend about the same length as the krystal flash.
Step 7. Whip finish and coat the head with Loon Outdoors UV Clear Fly Finish.

Your Margarita Clouser is now complete and you are ready to head out On The Water!

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